A Concise Introduction to Logic With Infotrac

Rating:
Summary: To be recommended
Review: A really great introduction to logic and the many complicated terms and concepts logic includes. Easy reading for people who have never been introduced to logic before. Includes plenty of exercises with selected answers for self-testing. High quality book, and high quality content. Hurley makes logic understandable and easier to study.

Rating:
Summary: Good study for the fun of it.
Review: Being more familiar with Hurley's FOURTH EDITION, I will relegate my comments to such. This introductory text delivers a formidable subject in an easy-to-ingest manner. His explanations are easy enough for the novice while strong enough to remain a decent reference work for he who only occasionally must call back to to a definition of some fallacy or another.

Rating:
Summary: dfd
Review: fdfd

Rating:
Summary: Good book for Academic instruction
Review: First, I am familar with the 6th edition, so my comments concern that edition. I have both learned from (as a student) and taught from (as an instructor) this book. The book's strength is in formal or deductive logic and not informal or inductive logic. (Although it covers inductive logic and critical thinking). This book should not be used by someone who is looking just to argue better, but is much more suited to an academic setting at the level of a senior in high school or college freshman/sophmore. I am not saying that it is a hard read or too technical, as a matter of fact, it is quite basic, but it is too dry for the average reader and you would simply not pick up the information from simply reading it; you would have to work the problems and interact with others who are also reading the book.

Rating:
Summary: College Student
Review: I found this text very helpful. It is a good book for a quick introduction to logic and the examples and questions along with the CD-Rom provide additional support in the understanding of the text. Even though this book was assigned as a required text for the class, I recommend it for anyone who wants to gain some knowledge on logic reasoning.

Rating:
Summary: Poop
Review: If I pooped all over this book, it would be significantly better.

Rating:
Summary: it is a very useful book
Review: the book explains clearly every process to get a valid argumrnt

Rating:
Summary: As a philosophy text this book is really lacking.
Review: There were many problems, but very few examples. The explanations were vague, and without the professor there would have been no hope. Do not buy this book for independent study for the GRE's, it will not help!

Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: This book contains absolutely awful explications. It is full of spurious interpretations and illustrations. I'm going to commit the common fallacy of Argumentum ad hominem and simply state that "Patrick Hurley is a moron"

The book is biased on many arguments, especially relating to gun control. It is soaked with Liberal vestiges. The book contains simplistic examples in the text only to have more complicated problems in the exercises. The only good trait about this book is listings of various fallacies and theories which were developed by great thinkers and not by this bigot Hurley. Hurley's examples are quite poor and underscore Hurley's lack of judgement and reasoning.

On top of this is the fact that I have discovered and pointed out numerous contradictions within the text to my Logic professor. He is as dissatisfied with the book as I am, but it is required by our University for now.

Please do not make the mistake of following the Argumentum ad Verecundiam fallacy...listening to unqualified authority. And if you are unfortunately required to use this text for school please do not let it be your only conduit to Logic.


Hurley, please find a new trait until you learn how to compile your thoughts into a more organized and unambivalent manner. Follow your own advice and mute your dogged "worldviews". This text is insentient garbage. A book on logic is meant to be based on context and not emotional and bias interpretations. It's ridiculous how many Conservative arguments you consider weak analogies on the included CD. Quite ironically, the amount of Liberal arguments on the CD are surprisingly sound arguments. What "hodge-podge"!!

Oh, and please include a program that doesn't crash every 5 minutes or lock up different operating systems!

Rating:
Summary: A fair book; should be used as practice to instruction.
Review: This is a very nice introductionary book that justly exhaust various topics. Pros: Easy to read, and unoffensive to the readers' intelligence. Many examples, diagrams, summaries, and concatenations between the chapters are well done. Cons: Vague on some explanations, excessive in some passages, not enough answers provided for the exercises.