A Practical Introduction To Formal Logic

Copyrighted by David L. Rouse

Table of Contents

I. The Uses of Language

II. Sentences, Statements, and Arguments

III. Truth Functional Statements

IV. Truth Table Evaluation of Statement Forms

V. Argument Forms

VI. Reduction Trees

VII. Statements and Reduction Trees

VIII. Deduction Trees

IX. Categorical Statements

X. Venn Diagrams of Categorical Statements

XI. Immediate Inferences

XII. Categorical Syllogisms

XIII. Venn Diagrams of Arguments

XIV. Quantification

XV. Polyadic Predication

XVI. Multiple Generality