Elements of Deductive Inference: An Introduction to Symbolic Logic.

BESSIE, Joseph and GLENNAN, Stuart.

ISBN 10: 0534551238 / ISBN 13: 9780534551230

Published by Wadsworth Publishing Company,, n.p.:, 1999

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First edition. Includes instructor's software (CD-ROM) & manual booklet. As new in printed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Still in original shrinkwrap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elements of Deductive Inference: An Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company,, n.p.:
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534551238
• ISBN 13: 9780534551230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Nonfiction IV

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Synopsis

The text covers elementary logic, from statement logic through relational logic with identity and function symbols. The authors acquaint students with formal techniques at a level appropriate for undergraduates, but extends far enough and deep enough into the subject that it is suitable for a brief first-year graduate course. The text covers full and brief truth tables, and presents the method of truth (consistency) trees and natural deduction for the whole of elementary logic. The text's organization allows instructors to cover just statement logic, or statement logic combined with various extensions into predicate logic: monadic logic with or without identity, or the preceding plus relational logic with or without identity and with or without function symbols. At each stage, the instructor may elect to pursue truth trees and/or natural deduction. A final chapter provides a perspective for further study and applications of logic. The text may be used with or without the accompanying software.