The Snake and the Fox: An Introduction to Logic

By Mary Haight

Book Overview

The Snake and the Fox is a highly imaginative and fun way to learn logic. Mary Haight's characters guide you through an elaborate tale of how logic works. This book features the Snake and the Fox, Granny, Gussie and the Newts, Ren De Descartes and Miss Nightingale, along with a huge supporting cast of humans, devils and sausage machines.
For anyone coming to logic for the first time, this is the best place to start. Mary Haight makes logic easy and fun - she asks the reader questions, and uses words instead of logic symbols with amusing pictures and characters to help them.
This book teaches all the basics the reader needs to know about logic (how arguments work, sound, valid reasoning, truth tables, Venn diagrams etc) in a truly enjoyable and innovative way. Anyone teaching themselves logic, or learning it on a course is bound to benefit fromthis original and intriguing book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415166942
• ISBN13: 9780415166942
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Great Condition and Fast

This book came in really good condition and I paid to get it overnight, but it actually came overnight (sometimes that doesn't happen).

Good logic book

This book was executed clearly and well. All the points were made directly. The author did not waste any time at all talking about un-needed material. Examples also aided in understanding. Stories and word problems illustrated the concepts extremely well and the reader knew why the problem worked the way it did, which also helped to understand. Questions (and answers provided in the back) gave a chance to test yourself to see what you knew and what you didn't. My only critisism would be in this aspect of the book in which I found some of the questions irrelevant such as: Find and discuss some clear and some possible examples of 'tonypandy.' I found that this had not relevance whatsoever to Logic or Philosophy in any way. It seemed as if Mary Haight just stuck the passage and question in the book so that it would be longer. Overall, one of the best logic books I have seen.