Overview

This text is based on the natural patterns of human thinking as analysed in Aristotle's formal logic. As an introduction for either the undergraduate or high school student, it presents only the basic rules needed for defining, judging and reasoning. The author outlines her presentations and provides familiar illustrations. The book also contains numerous exercises which utilise well-known topics.

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Comments on the first edition:^I Spangler knows today's students. She has written a text that is developed in the same outlines [as Oesterle, Smith, and Kane], but in a language and style suited to our present student population...The result is anadmirable textbook which brings together something of the Middle Ages' famous trivium of logic, grammar, and rhetoric....Spangler has the gift for repeating the doctrine on each point of logic over and over but in such a pleasant and even entertaining way that the student is not bored but delighted at the almost effortless progress achieved in each chapter.^RRR -- Raymond Smith, O.P. in THE THOMIST Comments on the first edition:^I Spangler knows today's students. She has written a text that is developed in the same outlines [as Oesterle, Smith, and Kane], but in a language and style suited to our present student population...The result is an admirable textbook which brings together something of the Middle Ages' famous trivium of logic, grammar, and rhetoric....Spangler has the gift for repeating the doctrine on each point of logic over and over but in such a pleasant and even entertaining way that the student is not bored but delighted at the almost effortless progress achieved in each chapter.^R -- Raymond Smith, O.P. in THE THOMIST

RQComments on the first edition:^I Spangler knows today's students. She has written a text that is developed in the same outlines [as Oesterle, Smith, and Kane], but in a language and style suited to our present student population...The result is an admirable textbook which brings together something of the Middle Ages' famous trivium of logic, grammar, and rhetoric....Spangler has the gift for repeating the doctrine on each point of logic over and over but in such a pleasant and even entertaining way that the student is not bored but delighted at the almost effortless progress achieved in each chapter.^R--Raymond Smith

Comments on the first edition:^I Spangler knows today's students. She has written a text that is developed in the same outlines [as Oesterle, Smith, and Kane], but in a language and style suited to our present student population...The result is anadmirable textbook which brings together something of the Middle Ages' famous trivium of logic, grammar, and rhetoric...Spangler has the gift for repeating the doctrine on each point of logic over and over but in such a pleasant and even entertaining way that the student is not bored but delighted at the almost effortless progress achieved in each chapter.^RRR -- Raymond Smith Comments on the first edition:^I Spangler knows today's students. She has written a text that is developed in the same outlines [as Oesterle, Smith, and Kane], but in a language and style suited to our present student population...The result is an admirable textbook which brings together something of the Middle Ages' famous trivium of logic, grammar, and rhetoric...Spangler has the gift for repeating the doctrine on each point of logic over and over but in such a pleasant and even entertaining way that the student is not bored but delighted at the almost effortless progress achieved in each chapter.^R -- Raymond Smith

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Mary Michael Spangler is Professor at Ohio Dominican College.

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