Ambrose, Alice, Lazerowitz, Morris. Fundamentals of Symbolic Logic
1948, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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Added by: Viviane FairbankAbstract:
This book is intended for the newcomer to formal logic and is designed to provide an introduction for the intelligent general reader as well as for the student in the classroom. Its primary purpose is to present in a clear, natural, and orderly fashion the fundamentals of a subject that has now acquired the status of an exact science... Chapters I through VII are devoted to the exposition of material necessary to the construction of the deductive system of truth-functions... Thanks to the special notation that has come to be characteristic of symbolic logic, it is possible to express the logical material with clarity and exactness and to organize it, as in Chapter VIII, into a deductive system. Chapters IX through XI are given over to the study of general propositions and of forms of inference involving them... Care has been taken to show how Aristotelian logic is accommodated within the framework of the extended, present-day subject: by introducing the reader to quantification theory and to the current notation for expressing forms of general propositions, and finally, by presenting, in Chapter XII, the calculus of classes.Comment: This introductory textbook to formal logic was widely used in America in the mid-20th Century. Although some of the methods and notations are now outdated, it still provides a useful introduction to central ideas in formal and informal logic, and could be used as a reference for those preparing an introductory logic course (or for those interested in the history of logic education).
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