Over a million students have learned to be more discerning at constructing and evaluating arguments with the help of Hurley's A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC. The text's clear, student-friendly and thorough presentation has made it the most widely used logic text in North America. Studying logic offers multiple benefits. It helps you think through problems in an organized and systematic way. It instills patterns of reasoning that enable you to persuade others as to the correctness of your convictions, and it teaches you how to use language clearly and precisely. Doing well in logic improves your skills in ways that will help in your other courses, everyday life and future career. Additionally, for the 14th edition, the WebAssign online platform provides interactive exercises, online homework solutions, multimedia tutorials, help videos and the complete text in an eBook format.
Author(s): Patrick J. Hurley
Edition: 14
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: Publisher's PDF
Pages: 658
City: Boston, MA
Tags: Philosophy; Statistics; Critical Thinking; Logic Fallacies; Probability Theory; Causality; Logic
Cover
Brief Contents
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts
1.1 Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions
1.2 Recognizing Arguments
1.3 Deduction and Induction
1.4 Validity, Truth, Soundness, Strength, and Cogency
1.5 Argument Forms: Proving Invalidity
1.6 Extended Arguments
Chapter 2: Language: Meaning and Definition
2.1 Varieties of Meaning
2.2 The Intension and Extension of Terms
2.3 Definitions and Their Purposes
2.4 Definitional Techniques
2.5 Criteria for Lexical Definitions
Chapter 3: Informal Fallacies
3.1 Fallacies in General
3.2 Fallacies of Relevance
3.3 Fallacies of Weak Induction
3.4 Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Illicit Transference
3.5 Fallacies in Ordinary Language
Chapter 4: Categorical Propositions
4.1 The Components of Categorical Propositions
4.2 Quality, Quantity, and Distribution
4.3 Venn Diagrams and the Modern Square of Opposition
4.4 Conversion, Obversion, and Contraposition
4.5 The Traditional Square of Opposition
4.6 Venn Diagrams and the Traditional Standpoint
4.7 Translating Ordinary Language Statements into Categorical Form
Chapter 5: Categorical Syllogisms
5.1 Standard Form, Mood, and Figure
5.2 Venn Diagrams
5.3 Rules and Fallacies
5.4 Reducing the Number of Terms
5.5 Ordinary Language Arguments
5.6 Enthymemes
5.7 Sorites
Chapter 6: Propositional Logic
6.1 Symbols and Translation
6.2 Truth Functions
6.3 Truth Tables for Propositions
6.4 Truth Tables for Arguments
6.5 Indirect Truth Tables
6.6 Argument Forms and Fallacies
Chapter 7: Natural Deduction in Propositional Logic
7.1 Rules of Implication I
7.2 Rules of Implication II
7.3 Rules of Replacement I
7.4 Rules of Replacement II
7.5 Conditional Proof
7.6 Indirect Proof
7.7 Proving Logical Truths
Chapter 8: Predicate Logic
8.1 Symbols and Translation
8.2 Using the Rules of Inference
8.3 Quantifier Negation Rule
8.4 Conditional and Indirect Proof
8.5 Proving Invalidity
8.6 Relational Predicates and Overlapping Quantifiers
8.7 Identity
Chapter 9: Analogy and Legal and Moral Reasoning
9.1 Analogical Reasoning
9.2 Legal Reasoning
9.3 Moral Reasoning
Chapter 10: Causality and Mill's Methods
10.1 "Cause" and Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
10.2 Mill's Five Methods
10.3 Mill's Methods and Science
Chapter 11: Probability
11.1 Theories of Probability
11.2 The Probability Calculus
Chapter 12: Statistical Reasoning
12.1 Evaluating Statistics
12.2 Samples
12.3 The Meaning of "Average"
12.4 Dispersion
12.5 Graphs and Pictograms
12.6 Percentages
Chapter 13: Hypothetical/Scientific Reasoning
13.1 The Hypothetical Method
13.2 Hypothetical Reasoning: Four Examples from Science
13.3 The Proof of Hypotheses
13.4 The Tentative Acceptance of Hypotheses
Chapter 14: Science and Superstition
14.1 Distinguishing between Science and Superstition
14.2 Evidentiary Support
14.3 Objectivity
14.4 Integrity
14.5 Abusing Science
Answers to Seleced Exercises
Glossary/Index
