The text covers elementary logic, from statement logic through relational logic with
identity and function symbols. The authors acquaint students with formal techniques
at a level appropriate for undergraduates, but extends far enough and deep enough
into the subject that it is suitable for a brief first-year graduate course. The text covers
full and brief truth tables, and presents the method of truth (consistency) trees and
natural deduction for the whole of elementary logic. The text's organization allows
instructors to cover just statement logic, or statement logic combined with various
extensions into predicate logic: monadic logic with or without identity, or the preceding
plus relational logic with or without identity and with or without function symbols. At
each stage, the instructor may elect to pursue truth trees and/or natural deduction.
A final chapter provides a perspective for further study and applications of logic.
The text may be used with or without the accompanying software.
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