Re: Help with a problem

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:24:01 GMT, Robert Zimmerman <rfz1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
> Thank you so much. It is truly appreciated. I'm moving on into the next
> chapters, and don't anticipate any more torment, for me or for the
> group. However, I'd be grateful if people had suggestions for one who
> would like to learn logic in a little more depth. I do suppose that to
> you guys that's sort of the equivalent to somebody asking me for more
> reading in medicine: I would say, "Orthopedics, infectious disease,
> nephrology, what exactly do you mean?" But perhaps there is sort of
> standard progression for neophytes?
>
Uhhh... (a problem where formal logic c a n ' t help... ;-)

It's hard for me to give a recommendation. You might consider Lemmon's
'Beginning Logic' next. (Very good introduction to natural deduction -
the real stuff.) Or even _the latest edition_ (!) of Copi's 'Symbolic
Logic'. ("Introduction to Logic" is rather superficial compared with
'Symbolic Logic'.)


F.

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"I do tend to feel Hughes & Cresswell is a more authoritative
source than you." (D. Ullrich)
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