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| Background | |
| Why Study Logic | |
| Sentences, Truth-Values, and Arguments | |
| Deductive Validity and Soundness | |
| Inductive Arguments | |
| Logical Consistency, Truth, Falsity, and Equivalence | |
| Special Cases of Validity | |
| Sentential Logic: Symbolization and Syntax | |
| Symbolization and Truth-Functional Connectives | |
| Complex Symbo... MORE | |
| Non-Truth-Functional Connectives | |
| The Syntax of SL | |
| Sentential Logic: Semantics | |
| Truth-Value Assignments and Truth-Tables for Sentences | |
| Truth-Functional Truth, Falsity, and Indeterminacy | |
| Truth-Functional Equivalence | |
| Truth-Functional Consistency | |
| Truth-Functional Entailment and Truth-Functional Validity | |
| Truth-Functional Properties and Truth-Functional Consistency | |
| Sentential Logic: Truth-Trees | |
| The Truth-Tree Method | |
| Truth-Tree Rules for Sentences Containing 'tilde', 'wedge', and 'ampersand' | |
| Rules for Sentences Containing 'horseshoe' and 'triple bar' | |
| More Complex Truth-Trees | |
| Using Truth-Trees to Test for Truth-Functional Truth, Falsity, and Indeterminacy | |
| Truth-Functional Equivalence | |
| Truth-Functional Entailment and Truth-Functional Validity | |
| Sentential Logic: Derivations | |
| The Derivation System SD | |
| Applying the Derivation Rules of SD | |
| Basic Concepts of SD | |
| Strategies for Constructing Derivations in SD | |
| The Derivation System SD+ | |
| Sentential Logic: Metatheory | |
| Mathematical Induction | |
| Truth-Functional Completeness | |
| The Soundness of SD and SD+ | |
| The Completeness of SD and SD+ | |
| Predicate Logic: Symbolization and Syntax | |
| The Limitations of SL | |
| Predicates, Individual Constants, and Quantity Terms of English | |
| Introduction to PL | |
| Quantifiers Introduced | |
| The Formal Syntax of PL | |
| A-, E-, I-, and O-Sentences | |
| Symbolization Techniques | |
| Multiple Quantifiers with Overlapping Scope | |
| Identity, Definite Descriptions, and Properties of Relations, and Functions | |
| Predicate Logic: Semantics | |
| Informal Semantics for PL | |
| Quantificational Truth, Falsehood, and Indeterminacy | |
| Quantificational Equivalence and Consistency | |
| Quantification Entailment and Validity | |
| Truth-Functional Expansions | |
| Semantics for Predicate Logic with Identity and Functors | |
| Formal Semantics of PL and PLE | |
| Predicate Logic: Truth-Trees | |
| Expanding the Rules for Truth-Trees | |
| Truth-Trees and Quantificational Consistency | |
| Truth-Trees and Other Semantic Properties | |
| Trees for PLE | |
| Fine-Tuning the Tree Method | |
| Predicate Logic: Derivations | |
| The Derivation System PD | |
| Applying the Derivation Rules of PD | |
| Basic Concepts of PD | |
| Strategies for Constructing Derivations in PD | |
| The Derivation System PD+ | |
| The Derivation System PDE | |
| Predicate Logic: Metatheory | |
| Semantic Preliminaries for PD | |
| Semantic Preliminaries for PLE | |
| The Soundness of PD, PD+, and PDE | |
| The Completeness of PD, PD+, and PDE | |
| The Soundness of the Tree Method | |
| The Completeness of the Tree Method Selected Bibliography Index | |
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