- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (7 April 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195080297
- ISBN-13: 978-0195080292
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Modern Logic is a text designed for a first course in symbolic logic for students in philosophy, mathematics, computer science, or linguistics. The book covers classical sentential logic, monadic predicate logic, and full first-order logic with identity, in three separate sections. Modern Logic's natural deduction system will be easy for students to understand, and the material is carefully structured, with graded exercises at the end of each section, selected answers to which are provided at the back of the book. The book's emphasis throughout is to give the student a thorough understanding of the concepts rather than just a facility with formal procedures.
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Symbolic logic is usually described as the study of the difference between valid and invalid arguments, so we begin with an explanation of this terminology. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
This book is a classic workbook. Plenty of exercises to work through at increasing difficulty levels.
Depending on your aims for studying logic this may or may not make a good first book. If you wish to understand the basics of correct logical inference and learn some formal technique then I suggest something like Wilfrid Hodges 'Logic'. However, if you are a university student or want to have a solid grasp of several logical systems then Forbes' book will provide you with a comprehensive range of material.
Highly recommended
Depending on your aims for studying logic this may or may not make a good first book. If you wish to understand the basics of correct logical inference and learn some formal technique then I suggest something like Wilfrid Hodges 'Logic'. However, if you are a university student or want to have a solid grasp of several logical systems then Forbes' book will provide you with a comprehensive range of material.
Highly recommended
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Not an Introductory Text
17 Oct 2003
Format:Paperback
As an accompaniment to the program MacLogic for an upper level course I can see where this book would have a place. Unfortunately my introduction to it was tutoring for an introductory class. The material is well written and organized but far too densely written, particularly for students who have never had a logic class before and are coming from questionable mathematics backgrounds. That there is no index of symbols just makes navigating the text that much more difficult.
On another level, the author seems to eschew a good many things that many other logic courses--at least those I've seen and taken--use in depth. Things like Modus Ponens are barely touched on in favor of "v E" (disjunction elimination). This seems unusual for an introductory textbook in the field, though I am not familiar enough to know for certain.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Good book but not a teaching text
21 Mar 2003
Format:Paperback
It is important to be forewarned that this is not a good text for an introductory logic class. I have taught classes using several other texts, and, although they had their flaws, the Forbes' text has flaws that are almost unsurmountable for the typical lower-division college student. The explanations, though creative,are not clear enough, and the flow of topics is out of sorts. For example, the exercises which accompany the sections start out too difficult to be any aid in helping the introductory student grasp the techniques. In short, for upper-division courses or for people who already have a logic background, this is an interesting book and might be worth a look, but it fails miserably as an introductory text.
Forbes' Modern Logic is Excellent!
19 Sep 2009
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I used this book in my logic course. I thought the book was perfectly straight-forward, and had more than enough problems to rapidly learn the material.
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