Symbolic Logic

Brimming with visual examples of concepts, derivation rules, and proof strategies, this introductory text is ideal for students with no previous experience in logic. Symbolic Logic: Syntax, Semantics, and Proof introduces students to the fundamental concepts, techniques, and topics involved in deductive reasoning. Agler guides students through the basics of symbolic logic by explaining the essentials of two classical systems, propositional and predicate logic. Students will learn translation both from formal language into English and from English into formal language, how to use truth trees and truth tables to test propositions for logical properties, and how to construct and strategically use derivation rules in proofs. This text makes this often confounding topic much more accessible with step-by-step example proofs, chapter glossaries of key terms, hundreds of homework problems and solutions for practice, and suggested further readings.

Autorentext
David Agler is a lecturer in philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Propositions, Arguments, and Logical Properties
Chapter 2 Language, Syntax, and Semantics
Chapter 3 Truth Tables
Chapter 4 Truth Trees
Chapter 5 Propositional Logic Derivations
Chapter 6 Predicate Language, Syntax, and Semantics
Chapter 7 Predicate Truth Trees
Chapter 8 Predicate Logic Derivations
Further Reading