Introduction to Logical Theory (University Paperbacks) - Softcover

Strawson, P. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0416682200 ISBN 13: 9780416682205

Publisher: Methuen & Co., 1963

Synopsis

Many books are excellent in their expositions of the technical and systematic aspects of logic, but deal comparatively sketchily, and often rather misleadingly, with the relations between the formal systems they expound and the logical features of ordinary discourse. As a result of this omission, the true character of formal logic itself is apt to be left obscure. So this book has two complementary aims: one is to bring out some points of contrast and of contact between the behaviour of words in ordinary speech and the behaviour of symbols in a logical system; the other is to make clear, at an introductory level, the nature of formal logic itself. I have included enough of the elementary material of formal logic to provide a basis for the philosophical discussion of its nature, and to serve, if desired, as an introduction to more advanced technical treatises. Since the book is designed to be used as a general introduction to logic, I have added a concluding chapter on induction and probability.

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Review

`This is a very impressive book which will be read with profit by advanced students as well as by beginners.' - Oxford Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: Methuen & Co.
• Publication date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0416682200
• ISBN 13: 9780416682205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276