Fundamentals of Reasoning: A Logic Book

by Robert M. Johnson

Book Overview

Robert Johnson goes to great pains to amke logic accessible and rewarding to the beginning student and, particularly, to the under-prepared student. The predominant strategy of the book, both chapter... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 053456108X
• ISBN13: 9780534561086
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

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M.S. in computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

This is a straighforward and easily understandable introduction to formal logic. Especially important is the clear statement of the relationship between deductive logic, and probabilistic reasoning -- a relationship that is poorly understood in America's engineering community. with the number of artificial intelligenc publications in 2006 exploding, it is important for engineers to know the limitations of probabilistic reasoning. I had rather that the book left out the older Aristotelian syllogistic approach, as this tends to alienate modern technical people who are trying to evaluate the worth of modern symbolic logic.