Understanding Logic

Designed to be a more accessible for courses in introductory logic, elementary symbolic logic, and critical thinking. This comprehensive introduction to logic provides a system of natural deduction, as well as an appendix that introduces the truth tree technique for propositional and predicate logic. Topic coverage includes four chapters devoted to induction: on analogies, on Mill's Methods, on probability and statistical reasoning, and on the scientific method. The text also covers deduction (syllogisms and symbolic logic), and informal fallacies.Flage, Daniel is the author of 'Understanding Logic', published 1995 under ISBN 9780023381737 and ISBN 0023381736.