The Logic Manual Paperback – 17 Oct. 2010

Fantastic help for daughter who struggles with maths.

The book is brilliantly explanatory and thus, extremely helpful.

We could all use a class in logic.

I bought this book at the same time as I bought Wilfrid Hodges's Logic. I struggled with Hodges, and turned to this present volume for assistance but had to give up on page 9. I read a couple of simpler books ( Siu-Fan Lee's "Logic", Graham Priest's "Logic - A Very Short Introduction") before going back to Hodges. Having completed that, I can now understand this book. It's as dry as dust but this in a way makes it quite attractive (there aren't many laughs in Aristotle either) and the book itself is very high quality production that is a pleasure to handle and to read.

This book is extremely analytical and at times hard to read. It is probably essential reading for budding philosophers though.

The material is well-presented for a student with little to no background in logic or set theory. However, the order is jumbled - semantics are studied before Natural Deduction, which leads one to the counter-intuitive position of having studied counterexamples to claims before proofs. With a reworked order, the book could be formidable.

A clear introduction to the study of formal logic - including the systems of propositional and predicate logic (with identity) and the natural deduction system of proof. This book is the current set text for those studying the subject at Oxford where the author is the lecturer in this field. Very suitable for those who need a high level entry into the subject, not at all recommended for someone who is looking for a light holiday read!

I was looking an introductory text to logic and stumbled across this one. It provided a detailed, yet clear and easy to understand, introduction to propositional, predicate and predicate logic with identity. It came with additional material such as exercises, lecture slides and a sample paper - all found online.If you want an introduction to logic, then this one is good.