Description: The Second Edition of this text continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to Logic, a subject that is increasingly becoming popular among students. What distinguishes the text is its graded step-by-step approach to the subject, with informal logic forming the basis and Symbolic logic and Inductive logic forming the more advanced steps. The book also uses a hands-on approach to teaching of logic to induce self-learning, as shown in sections such as on how to create a truth table or a truth tree, on providing strategic tips for formal derivations, and on how to approach symbolization in predicate logic. The Appendices, including those on Indian logic and the nature of inference in Indian logic, are designed to create greater awareness about the extent and depth of the field among students.

CONTENTS: Preface • Preface to the First Edition • Acknowledgements • Introduction 1. Preliminaries Part A: INFORMAL LOGIC 2. Informal Logic: Arguments 3. Informal Logic: Fallacies Part B: SYMBOLIC LOGIC 4. Symbolic Logic: Introduction 5. Propositional Logic: Syntax and Symbolization 6. Propositional Logic: Semantics and Truth Tables 7. Propositional Logic: Truth Trees 8. Derivations 9. Aristotelian Syllogistic Logic 10. First Order Predicate Logic: Syntax and Symbolization 11. First Order Predicate Logic: Semantics 12. Predicate Logic: Derivation Part C: INDUCTION 13. Inductive Reasoning 14. Argument by Analogy 15. Argument by Causal Reasoning 16. Probability and Induction 17. Science, Hypothesis, and Induction Appendices A. Logical Paradoxes B. Philosophical Controversy with ‘if-then’ and ‘É’ C. Alternative Logics in Western System D. Metatheory E. Indian Logic F. Inference in the Nyaya System G. Dynamic Logic and Temporal Logic H. Basic Set Theory Solutions to Selected Exercises • Index