A Concise Introduction to Logic

Unsurpassed for its clarity, conciseness, and comprehensiveness, Hurley's market-leading A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC has established itself as the standard for introductory logic classes. Hailed in the first eight editions for an unwavering commitment to lucid, focused, reader-friendly presentations of logic's basic topics, the latest edition also continues to expand upon Hurley's tradition of technological excellence with the introduction of vMentor and iLrn Logic. These two technologies help you manage the workload of teaching logic by providing your students with a live, online logic tutoring service and you with an online system that automates homework and test grading. In addition, Hurley's outstanding LEARNING LOGIC?an interactive, audio-visual recasting of the entire text?remains a free supplement with each copy of the text. Rounded out with a Book Companion Website that features student quizzing and interactive tutorials on Venn diagrams and truth tables, Hurley's A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC, Ninth Edition is not only the most logically sound choice that a professor could make for his or her logic course, but the most "technologically" sound choice as well.

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