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A Concise Introduction to Logic | 
 enlarge | Author: Patrick J. Hurley
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 129643
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 10
Pages: 672
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0495503835
Dewey Decimal Number: 160
EAN: 9780495503835
ASIN: 0495503835
Publication Date: September 26, 2007
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Product Description
Tens of thousands of students have learned to be more discerning at constructing and evaluating arguments with the help of Patrick J. Hurley. Hurley's lucid, friendly, yet thorough presentation has made A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC the most widely used logic text in North America. In addition, the book's accompanying technological resources, such as CengageNOW and Learning Logic, include interactive exercises as well as video and audio clips to reinforce what you read in the book and hear in class. In short, you'll have all the assistance you need to become a more logical thinker and communicator.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Perfect-o! October 10, 2008
Stefan Aaron Roberts (Arizona)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This came an about the same time they had said it would come in. Came in mint condition and has thus far served to help better my grade in my Logics class.
 Logic. October 3, 2008
Emanuel Kataev (Fresh Meadows, NY USA)
It is indeed a concise book. Only complaint I have is it does not contain the answers to all questions, but only one of every three.
Otherwise, very well written textbook.
Thank you for Refund Help May 16, 2008
A. Saunders (Myrtle Beach, SC)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was in the process of ordering a book for my college class and learned after ordering the book, that is was the wrong edition. I quickly emailed this company and they were quick to respond and refund my order. I want to say thank you for the quickness and helpfulness. I rate this company five stars.
It contains what you need to know to be a logical person April 28, 2008
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Logic is something that all humans believe they practice, but few actually do it with regularity. Sometimes it is inconvenient to be logical, but the vast majority of the time it is due to a failure to understand what the rules of logic are. This book, designed to be a text for a college level course in logic, contains what you will need to be a logical person. The material is for a logic course taught more in a philosophical vein rather than in the mathematical format.
The chapter headings are:
*) Basic concepts
*) Language: Meaning and definition
*) Informal fallacies
*) Categorical propositions
*) Categorical syllogisms
*) Propositional logic
*) Natural deduction in propositional logic
*) Predicate logic
*) Induction
The exposition is conversational in tone and verbal in presentation. There are few formulas in the early chapters and there are a large number of problems at the ends of the sections. Most of the problems are textual in nature, and solutions to many of them are included in an appendix.
This book is a sound choice as a textbook in a course in basic logic; I found some of the examples used in the later chapters of value when talking about predicates in my course on the theory of computation.
 Fairly understandable, but the concepts are pointlesss December 27, 2007
Priscilla A. Arnold (Minneapolis, MN)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
...at least that's my own opinion. I still don't understand the point of turning sentences into tilde's, horseshoes and triple bars in order to figure out if it makes sense! But the book is easy enough to read. And the CD Rom is extremely helpful in the process. I got an A in the class, and mostly depended on the CS Rom.
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