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Paperback Languages of Logic 2e Book

ISBN: 155786988X

ISBN13: 9781557869883

Languages of Logic 2e

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With the same intellectual goals as the first edition, this innovative introductory logic textbook explores the relationship between natural language and logic, motivating the student to acquire skills and techniques of formal logic. This new and revised edition includes substantial additions which make the text even more useful to students and instructors alike. Central to these changes is an Appendix, 'How to Learn Logic', which takes the student...

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no discussion of Lisp?

Guttenplan provides a nice description of the ideas in formal logic. And how to express these in the notation of the field. There is also plenty in the way of examples, to aid your learning. Lots of truth tables, and how to translate a statement into a predicate form. Chapters have exercises, some of which even have answers. So the book is suitable for an undergraduate text. The only thing missing is a discussion of how the logic might be implemented on a computer. Perhaps, specifically, using Lisp. While that language has some real world problems, its expressive power lends itself to manipulating logic.
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