Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic

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"Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic, 2nd Edition offers an innovative introduction to logic that integrates formal first order, modal, and non-classical logic with natural language reasoning, analytical writing, critical thinking, set theory, and the philosophy of logic and mathematics. An innovative introduction to the field of logic in all its guises, designed to entertain as it informs Addresses contemporary applications of logic in fields such as computer science and linguistics A web-site linked to the text features numerous supplemental exercises and examples, enlightening puzzles and cartoons, and insightful essays"-- Machine generated contents note: Chapter One -- 1.1. Introducing Formal Logic -- 1.2. Constants and Relations -- 1.3. Quantifiers and Variables -- 1.4. Introducing Informal Logic -- 1.5. Conclusions -- 1.6. Dialects of Logic -- Chapter Two -- 2.1. Formal Inference -- 2.2. Informal Inference -- 2.3. Diagramming Arguments -- 2.4. Saying No -- 2.5. Metalogic -- Chapter Three -- 3.1. Basic Sentential -- 3.2. Truth Tables -- 3.3. English to Sentential -- 3.4. Negating Statements -- 3.5. Rebutting Premises -- 3.6. Computer Logic -- Chapter Four -- 4.1. Validity -- 4.2. Logic of English -- 4.3. Negating Conditionals -- 4.4. Rebutting Inferences -- 4.5. Logic of Sets -- Chapter Five -- 5.1. Well-formed Formulas -- 5.2. Shortcut Method -- 5.3. Local and Global -- 5.4. More on Trees -- 5.5. Rebutting Everything -- 5.6. Polish Logic -- Chapter Six -- 6.1. Predicate -- 6.2. English to Predicate -- 6.3. Reading Between the Lines -- 6.4. Multi-valued Logic -- Chapter Seven -- 7.1. Universes -- 7.2. Syllogisms -- 7.3. Validity -- 7.4. Diagramming Your Argument -- 7.5. Inductive Logic -- Chapter Eight -- 8.1. Predicate Wffs -- 8.2. Outlining Your Argument -- 8.3. Logic of Chance -- Chapter Nine -- 9.1. Simple Deduction -- 9.2. Simple Strategy -- 9.3. Writing Your Argument -- 9.4. Basic Modal Logic -- Chapter Ten -- 10.1. Sentential Deduction -- 10.2. Sentential Strategy -- 10.3. Arguing with Yourself -- 10.4. Sophisticated Modal Logic -- Chapter Eleven -- 11.1. Predicate Deduction -- 11.2. Predicate Strategy -- 11.3. Why We Argue -- 11.4. Presidential Debating -- 11.5. Logic of Paradox -- Chapter Twelve -- 12.1. Deduction with Identity -- 12.2. Deduction, FMTYEWTK -- 12.3. Parliamentary Debating -- 12.4. Cathy, A Decade On -- 12.5. Incomplete Logic.