Deductive Logic - Hardcover

Goldfarb, Warren

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Synopsis

This text provides a straightforward, lively but rigorous, introduction to truth-functional and predicate logic, complete with lucid examples and incisive exercises, for which Warren Goldfarb is renowned.

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About the Author

Warren Goldfarb is Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, and Professor of Philosophy, at Harvard University.

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From the Introduction:

"This book is divided into four Parts. In the first, we treat truth-functional logic, which concerns those structures signaled in ordinary language by and , or , not , and if ... then . The second takes up simple quantificational logic, which treats all and some . The third extends quantificational logic to cover cases that results when nested structures of all and some are allowed, as in statements like Everybody loves somebody sometime . Finally, Part IV discusses the logic of identity ( is equal to , is the same as ) and of complex names."

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