A Logic Book

By Robert M. Johnson

Book Overview

Robert Johnson goes to great pains to amke logic accessible and rewarding to the beginning student and, particularly, to the under-prepared student. The predominant strategy of the book, both chapter and as a whole, is to move from the simple to the complex. As the student moves along through simple demonstrations and concepts, his or her confidence with the material increases. Soon students are able to handle those aspects of logic that are not demonstrable or formalizable. Students see what the mastery of techniques can do and they see some of the ''fuzzy edges'' where logic and language are in tension.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534165001
• ISBN13: 9780534165000
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

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M.S. in computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

This is a straighforward and easily understandable introduction to formal logic. Especially important is the clear statement of the relationship between deductive logic, and probabilistic reasoning -- a relationship that is poorly understood in America's engineering community. with the number of artificial intelligenc publications in 2006 exploding, it is important for engineers to know the limitations of probabilistic reasoning. I had rather that the book left out the older Aristotelian syllogistic approach, as this tends to alienate modern technical people who are trying to evaluate the worth of modern symbolic logic.