This book is an interdisciplinary study into formal logic. It is unique in bringing together disparate strands of logical processes in complex inferences and extending logical processes in their application to complex inferences. The author's skillful combination of symbolic, diagrammatic, and non-equational or predicative form of proposition means that this text is accessible to scholars and students alike, and without sacrificing the necessary subtleties required for true understanding of the discipline. The work begins by establishing the rules of the syllogism before simplifying complex propositions and exploring hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms. The book also includes an in-depth examination of quantified predicates and inverse problems, concepts that are essential to the advancement of formal logic. The text's insights on its main subject are significant and the author's approach offers the promise of richer philosophical engagement with logic.
John Neville Keynes (1852-1949) was an economist and father to the late John Maynard Keynes. He was also university lecturer in moral science and late fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge as well as late examiner in political economy at the University of London. One of his famous arguments was dividing the idea of Economy into three parts: positive economy, normative economy, and the "art of economics." He is most known for his Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic.