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Tables of Contents for A Concise Introduction to Logic
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Basic Concepts
1
71
Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions
1
12
Recognizing Arguments
13
18
Deduction and Induction
31
10
Validity, Truth, Soundness, Strength, Cogency
41
11
Argument Forms: Proving Invalidity
52
7
Extended Arguments
59
13
Language: Meaning and Definition
72
39
Varieties of Meaning
72
10
The Intension and Extension of Terms
82
5
Definitions and Their Purposes
87
7
Definitional Techniques
94
10
Criteria for Lexical Definitions
104
7
Informal Fallacies
111
77
Fallacies in General
111
3
Fallacies of Relevance
114
16
Fallacies of Weak Induction
130
17
Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Grammatical Analogy
147
23
Fallacies in Ordinary Language
170
18
Categorical Propositions
188
54
The Components of Categorical Propositions
188
2
Quality, Quantity, and Distribution
190
5
Venn Diagrams and the Modern Square of Opposition
195
9
Conversion, Obversion, and Contraposition
204
10
The Traditional Square of Opposition
214
10
Venn Diagrams and the Traditional Standpoint
224
6
Translating Ordinary Language Statements into Categorical Form
230
12
Categorical Syllogisms
242
45
Standard Form, Mood, and Figure
242
7
Venn Diagrams
249
12
Rules and Fallacies
261
8
Reducing the Number of Terms
269
3
Ordinary Language Arguments
272
3
Enthymemes
275
5
Sorites
280
7
Propositional Logic
287
61
Symbols and Translation
287
11
Truth Functions
298
12
Truth Tables for Propositions
310
9
Truth Tables for Arguments
319
5
Indirect Truth Tables
324
6
Argument Forms and Fallacies
330
18
Natural Deduction in Propositional Logic
348
57
Rules of Implication I
348
11
Rules of Implication II
359
10
Rules of Replacement I
369
11
Rules of Replacement II
380
10
Conditional Proof
390
5
Indirect Proof
395
6
Proving Logical Truths
401
4
Predicate Logic
405
63
Symbols and Translation
405
9
Using the Rules of Inference
414
11
Change of Quantifier Rule
425
4
Conditional and Indirect Proof
429
6
Proving Invalidity
435
6
Relational Predicates and Overlapping Quantifiers
441
12
Identity
453
15
Induction
468
124
Analogy and Legal and Moral Reasoning
468
19
Causality and Mill's Methods
487
21
Probability
508
17
Statistical Reasoning
525
19
Hypothetical/Scientific Reasoning
544
20
Science and Superstition
564
28
Answers to Selected Exercises
592
62
Glossary/Index
654