The Snake and the Fox
An Introduction to Logic
Seiten
1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-16694-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-16694-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Mary Haight teaches at the Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow. She is also the author of A Study of Self-Deception.
Preface Prologue: the Snake and the Fox PART I Truth and validity Chapters 1-14 PART II The logic of statements I (truth-tables) Chapters 15-28 PART III The logic of sets (Venn diagrams) Chapters 29-36 PART IV The logic of statements II (proofs) Chapters 37-52
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.8.1999 |
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Zusatzinfo | 100 Tables, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
Gewicht | 860 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-16694-2 / 0415166942 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-16694-2 / 9780415166942 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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