The Power of Logic

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Summary: an excellent introductory logic textbook
Review: As a college philosophy teacher I have tried many textbooks for teaching informal logic. I am very happy with this book. It presents the material thoroughly and clearly and has tons of useful exercises. I don't need the chapters on symbolic logic for the course I teach, but the material on informal and Aristotelian logic is working very nicely. The publisher maintains an interactive website with additional exercises and review material for students. My students use it and appreciate it.

Rating:
Summary: an excellent introductory logic textbook
Review: As a college philosophy teacher I have tried many textbooks for teaching informal logic. I am very happy with this book. It presents the material thoroughly and clearly and has tons of useful exercises. I don't need the chapters on symbolic logic for the course I teach, but the material on informal and Aristotelian logic is working very nicely. The publisher maintains an interactive website with additional exercises and review material for students. My students use it and appreciate it.

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Summary: Layman Succeeds in Most Areas
Review: I found this book highly insightful and would recommend it for any philosophy/logic course in higher education. I did find that the online companion []slightly grating in its' acceptance of certain grammar and punctuation. This aside, I would recommend the book as a whole to anyone interested. It runs the gamut from formal to informal, and adds mighty descriptors of the information along the way. One point deduction for the companion site functionality that this book uses. The book by itself is easy to grasp with enough toughies to keep the average logic student going. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I took an intro philosophy class at Texas A&M University and this was the book that I was required to buy. I thought this book was great. I really like that it had the problems online (if not all of them a majority of them). It was nice to be able to work out the problems from the book and then go online and type them in to see what you were doing right or what was wrong with you answer. It gave clear examples and was easy to understand.

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Summary: Probability is the Very Guide of Life
Review: This is *such* a good book. When I reviewed the MS for the publisher, the copy I had included a chapter on modal logic which did not make it into the First Edition. I hope it makes it into later additions. Being a thoroughgoing probablist, I especially appreciated the chapter on probability theory. Given the widespread use of probability theory in contemporary analytic philosophy, there's almost no excuse for a philosophy program to use any other book for philosophy majors (except, of course, _Socratic Logic_).