MAYA PUBLISHING HOUSE

About the book: This book is an introduction to formal logic suitable for all people who are interested in a general course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to anyone interested in a basic understanding of logic. This book takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history. The author uses examples from important and celebrated arguments in philosophy to illustrate logical principles. The book also includes a basic introduction to findings of advanced logic. It is a concise introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but efficiently. The author explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the ancient period till modern era. This book is highly helpful to understand effective reasoning and projects you into a world where you start to realize things how they really are, not how you judge they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which carefully defined, are simply understandable in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant developments in the way you wish to understand what logic is.