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The Power of Logic | 
 enlarge | Author: C. Layman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 453981
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0072875879
Dewey Decimal Number: 160
EAN: 9780072875874
ASIN: 0072875879
Publication Date: February 23, 2004
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Product Description
This introductory level text carries the conviction that logic is the most important course that college students take. The Power of Logic provides balanced coverage of informal logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic, while its companion online supplement, Logic Tutor, offers a wealth of applications for the concepts discussed. Layman�s direct and accessible writing style, along with his plentiful examples and imaginative exercises, make this the best text for today's logic classes.
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 An Excellent Introductory Text April 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A while back, I had used this text for a course in Logic. The best thing about it was that the material was explained and illustrated so well that one can learn from this book without going to the classroom!
This doesn't mean that someone should just read and move on; the problems given in this text are still critical to understanding and applying Logic. There's even an answer key for some of the problems, so one can check their own work!
In addition, the skills that one can develop using this text are also transferrable - especially for those that are learning Programming.
All in all, I'd recommend this text for anybody who needs an understanding of Logic, whether it be for a class or a profession. If one has an interest in more advanced concepts of Logic (e.g. - Counterfactuals), however, this book is not for you.
 Full of errors - poor book August 11, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I absolutely hated this book. It was the textbook for a "symbolic logic" class - although it was extremely subjective and not logical at all. The book is full of errors and is faulty in its reasoning in some of the problems. I hated this book as well as the class - I expected a logic class to be logical and not subjective. If you have knowledge about a topic, it is frustrating when the authors are narrow minded and think they have the answer when you know their reasoning is faulty and incorrect.
If you have a choice between a math class and a logic class (especially using this book) - choose the math class. I did get an very good grade in spite of the book - a 3.9 --- although the class average was 1.85 (on a 4.0 scale) and it was the lowest grade I received while working on the degree I just finished.
To the authors: It can be raining and the ground can be dry. It is called virga - where rain evaporates before it reaches the ground. Your saying the ground must be wet if it is raining and using that for a example sentence throughout the book is a major error.
If you have to take a class in this, kill yourself. July 3, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Let me start by saying I received an A in the class. I wasn't too dim to understand the material, so this isn't whining from a bruised ego. Logic sounds cool. It isn't! I don't know if it's possible to make logic logical or not, but this book is a collection of poorly explained utter nonsense. Logic seems to combine the worst aspects of algebra and philosophy into one poorly organized discipline. This book doesn't help. It introduces ill conceived and vague concepts in a manner that seems to revel in their obscurity. It's like reading a review of the unix programming language from the guy that created unix. There are probably 8 people on Earth that would dig it, the rest... not so much.
Probability is the Very Guide of Life January 14, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is *such* a good book. When I reviewed the MS for the publisher, the copy I had included a chapter on modal logic which did not make it into the First Edition. I hope it makes it into later additions. Being a thoroughgoing probablist, I especially appreciated the chapter on probability theory. Given the widespread use of probability theory in contemporary analytic philosophy, there's almost no excuse for a philosophy program to use any other book for philosophy majors (except, of course, _Socratic Logic_).
 Great Book November 12, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I took an intro philosophy class at Texas A&M University and this was the book that I was required to buy. I thought this book was great. I really like that it had the problems online (if not all of them a majority of them). It was nice to be able to work out the problems from the book and then go online and type them in to see what you were doing right or what was wrong with you answer. It gave clear examples and was easy to understand.
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