Formal Logic: Its Scope and Limits

by Richard C. Jeffrey

Book Overview

What Maisie Knew is definitively one of James's most carefully planned novels. It has attained a strong position in the Jamesian canon. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872208133
• ISBN13: 9780872208131
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

tree method proof system is very useful

I used this book 30 years ago. The core of the book is the tree method proof system which has been a tremendous asset for me in the Discrete Math course I am taking this summer.If I were teaching a logic course, I would choose a more user friendly text but supplement it with the tree method for doing proofs. It greatly simplifies doing proofs once the premises and conclusion have been restated in quantified predicate form. You can thus avoid having to memorize and apply traditional patterns of syllogisms like "modus ponens" and "modus tollens"I might also use the method in a Discrete Math course because it can be used with logical circuit design and set theory as well as with the predicate calculus.

helped me ace Modern Logic

ok I ended up with a B+ for the final (must've slipped) after getting an A on every single test in the course and my professor actually requested that I should tutor people. It's a very concise book so you have to really _understand_ every sentence before going to the next part. Put the effort into mastering the book and it will pay off big time