Logic: The Art of Defining and Reasoning

By John A. Oesterle and Osterle

The essentials of Aristotelian logic in brief, with exercises. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135399998
• ISBN13: 9780135399996
• Release Date: March 1963
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Introduction

This is a "classic" introduction to classical logic. This book is important for today in understanding not only the foundations of logic itself but also in contrasting the traditional Aristoltelian logic with the modern symbolic versions. Oesterle defends the classical viewpoints such as the Square of Opposition from modern critics by showing that modern logic is too abstract and lacks intentionality towards real things, with the result for symbolic logic being what Henry B. Veatch called a "logic that can't say what anything is". Classical logic as presented here is overdue for a comeback in thinking circles.