Classical Logic: An Illustrated Introduction

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Winner of a Mom’s Choice Award Honoring Excellence! This book is an essential guide for beginning students of logic, helping them develop the skills of critical thinking, detecting fallacies, and forming defensible opinions and beliefs. It is based on the syllogistic logic taught by Lewis Carroll, writer of beloved children’s classics. This volume is inspired by Carroll, drawing from his ideas and examples and including illustrations from his most widely read books. It is at once whimsical and yet profoundly educational, providing students with a solid foundation in formal classical logic. Mom’s Choice Award-Winner! ‘In THAT direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw round, ‘lives a Hatter: and in THAT direction,’ waving the other paw, ‘lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.’ ‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. ‘Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’ ‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice. ‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.’ Alice didn’t think that proved it at all; however, she went on, ‘And how do you know that you’re mad?’…