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Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You - Hardcover

Bennett, Deborah J.

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9780393057485: Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You
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ISBN 10: 0393057488 ISBN 13: 9780393057485
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

Synopsis

"The best introduction to logic you will find." --Martin Gardner

 Penetrating and practical, Logic Made Easy is filled with anecdotal histories detailing the often muddy relationship between language and logic. Complete with puzzles you can try yourself and questions you can use to raise your test scores, Logic Made Easy invites readers to identify and ultimately remedy logical slips in everyday life. Even experienced logicians will be surprised by Deborah Bennett's ability to identify the illogical in everything from maddening street signs to tax forms that make April the cruelest month. Designed with dozens of visual examples, the book guides readers through those hair-raising times when logic is at odds with common sense. Logic Made Easy is indeed one of those rare books that will actually make you a more logical human being.

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About the Author

Deborah J. Bennet is the author of Randomness and teaches mathematics at New Jersey City University in Jersey City.

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In this compact, fluently written survey leavened with humor, New Jersey mathematics professor Bennett (Randomness) entertains as she instructs, focusing on?"the barriers we face in trying to communicate logically with each other." The author covers the ancient Greeks (the Greek word logos means "knowledge"), then such giants as Leibniz and Newton, who helped rescue the study of logic from classical languages, finally modern mathematicians and philosophers like Whitehead and Russell. In discussing topics like syllogisms, she uses tables and diagrams that shouldn't daunt anyone with a firm foundation in high school algebra and geometry. The book's most interesting chapter explains why if is perhaps the most problematical word in any verbal proposition. Everyone, including the hopelessly innumerate, will find Bennett's lessons in the tricks of speech invaluable, particularly in this election year.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393057488
ISBN 13 
9780393057485
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256
Rating
  • 3.44 out of 5 stars
    437 ratings by Goodreads