Overview
Sweet Reason is an introductory text for courses on modern logic unlike any other. The basic rudiments of formal and informal logical are here, all clearly described. Further, it focuses students on the real world, where the discipline of logic adds substance and meaning to all kinds of human discourse. Everything from puzzles, paradoxes, and mathematical proofs to campaign debate excerpts, government regulations, and cartoons are used to show how logic is put to work by philosophers, mathematicians, advertisers, computer scientists, politicians, and others. As the book alternately discusses, instructs, questions, teases, and challenges, readers will find themselves: 1) absorbing the fundamentals of the discipline, 2) becoming fluent in thte language of logic, 3) understanding how logic works in the real world, 4) enjoying logic's ability to entertain, surprise, subvert, and enlighten.
Full Product Details
Author: Tom Tymoczco , Jim Henle , Thomas Tymoczko
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition: 1st ed. 2000. 2nd printing 2004
Dimensions:
Width: 19.50cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 26.00cm
Weight: 2.510kg
ISBN: 9780387989303
ISBN 10: 0387989307
Pages: 666
Publication Date: 01 May 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
,
General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unknown
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD 
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Table of Contents
Preface for the General Reader.- Preface for Logic Teachers: How to Use this Book in Logic Courses.- Introduction.- A Taste of Logic.- Everything All at Once and a Warning.- Statement Logic, Formal Languages, and Informal Arguments.- Valid Arguments, Convincing Arguments, and Punk Logic.- Predicates, Programs, and Antique Logic.- Deduction, Infinity, and a Haircut.- Symbolic Sophistication, Induction, and Business Logic.- Completeness, Disbelief, Debates, and Dinner.- Paradox, Impossibility, and the Law.- Notes.- References.- Hints.- Some Answers.- Index.
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I think that this is the sort of book that generates strong opinions: you will either find it bewildering and perhaps loathe it, or you will find fascinating. It is certainly unique. I can think of no other logic text where xou will find out that the fact that Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. is a valid English sentence.I am going to give my copy to the local school for use as a book for Mathematics extension . I think my teenage sons will love it. R. Downey, Victoria University in Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society, No.82, August 2001
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