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114 of 115 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Kindle edition is one of the standard public domain volunteer scan jobbies.
The text is eloquent. In fact reading it it feels about 15 minutes old, not 100+ years.
HOWEVER, the book relies on a logic table to explain most of the discussion - and of course the logic table is missing and the subsequent "examples" are woeful text layouts that will at best totally confuse most readers.
If you want to enjoy the text again, a brilliant bargain. If you want a fantastic introduction to Logic, buy the book or an improved Kindle format version when it's released.
The text is eloquent. In fact reading it it feels about 15 minutes old, not 100+ years.
HOWEVER, the book relies on a logic table to explain most of the discussion - and of course the logic table is missing and the subsequent "examples" are woeful text layouts that will at best totally confuse most readers.
If you want to enjoy the text again, a brilliant bargain. If you want a fantastic introduction to Logic, buy the book or an improved Kindle format version when it's released.
37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
HTML does not believe in white space, which is unfortunate because the diagrams in this book clearly do. The formatting is poor and the diagrams appear as a big pile of symbols on the left hand side.
If it is your first look at this book, get a copy with the diagrams in. If you don't mind the lack of diagrams or atrocious formatting its fine. You get what you paid for.
If it is your first look at this book, get a copy with the diagrams in. If you don't mind the lack of diagrams or atrocious formatting its fine. You get what you paid for.
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89 of 92 people found the following review helpful
Great little logic textbook -- for a victorian child
23 Aug 2009
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a short little text Carroll wrote to introduce children to logical reasoning, specifically set logic of the "Some Cretans are Liars" variety. At the time, it was probably an excellent work for this purpose. There are two reasons why it's not that great a text for that today, though, at least not in this kindle edition.
The first is that Carroll's tone here has aged pretty badly. To begin with, his overall tone is at times painfully precious, in a way that would probably put off any modern child reading this text; beyond that, the examples he chooses are. . curious by modern standards -- for example, the second set of extended examples centers around the two propositions ""All Dragons are uncanny" and "all Scotchmen are canny."
The bigger problem is that the whole mechanism of the book revolves around a square grid diagram that simply doesn't translate in this kindle edition -- it just appears as a set of ||||'s next to each other. Which makes the book's arguments comparatively difficult to follow, for all Carroll's wit and charm.
Those two issues aside, Carroll's text does a good job of explaining basic logical theory in a way that children can understand. But, unfortunately, this edition is more a historical curiosity than it is anything else.
The first is that Carroll's tone here has aged pretty badly. To begin with, his overall tone is at times painfully precious, in a way that would probably put off any modern child reading this text; beyond that, the examples he chooses are. . curious by modern standards -- for example, the second set of extended examples centers around the two propositions ""All Dragons are uncanny" and "all Scotchmen are canny."
The bigger problem is that the whole mechanism of the book revolves around a square grid diagram that simply doesn't translate in this kindle edition -- it just appears as a set of ||||'s next to each other. Which makes the book's arguments comparatively difficult to follow, for all Carroll's wit and charm.
Those two issues aside, Carroll's text does a good job of explaining basic logical theory in a way that children can understand. But, unfortunately, this edition is more a historical curiosity than it is anything else.
34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Nothin' ain't worth nothin', but it's free (Roger MIller)
10 Feb 2010
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Kindle version is a great disappointment, due to the flagrant abuse of the formating that is essential to Carrol's presentation. My "for fee" Kindle books do respect formatting and they are a joy. Indeed, when color is not an issue, I prefer Kindle to print (variable font, auto dictionary, search, etc.). Perhaps I am old fashioned, but for me, "for free" does not excuse sloppy performance. This sloppiness carries over to many of the "for free" poetry books as well, rendering them worthless as well.
In my mind, this tarnishes the whole Kindle experience. What is worse, the Amazon reviews (usually a powerful guide to quality or lack thereof) are dragged in as co-conspirators. To wit: The Game of Logic is a delightful book and the print edition certainly deserves several stars. The Kindle edition is a mess, as I and others have explained. Averaging the star ratings for the book with the star ratings for this Kindle edition provides deceptive guidance. I refrain from judging if this deception is intentional or just further sloppiness. I had come to have higher expectations of Amazon and of Kindle Books. This experience is a bit of a thud.
In my mind, this tarnishes the whole Kindle experience. What is worse, the Amazon reviews (usually a powerful guide to quality or lack thereof) are dragged in as co-conspirators. To wit: The Game of Logic is a delightful book and the print edition certainly deserves several stars. The Kindle edition is a mess, as I and others have explained. Averaging the star ratings for the book with the star ratings for this Kindle edition provides deceptive guidance. I refrain from judging if this deception is intentional or just further sloppiness. I had come to have higher expectations of Amazon and of Kindle Books. This experience is a bit of a thud.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
bad copy
9 Mar 2010
Format:Kindle Edition
It might be the copy I got or something, but all it was was ones and twos. Every time I click on the book, I get something different. One time it is numbers and another time it is just a whole bunch of words that don't make sense the way they were put together.
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'PROPOSITION' itself, you may take this:--"a sentence stating that some, or none, or all, of the Things belonging to a certain class, called its 'Subject', are also Things belonging to a certain other class, called its 'Predicate'".
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