Languages of Logic 2e

by Samuel Guttenplan

Book Overview

This new and revised edition explores the relationship between natural language and logic, motivating the student to acquire skills and techniques of formal logic. It includes substantial additions... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155786988X
• ISBN13: 9781557869883
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

no discussion of Lisp?

Guttenplan provides a nice description of the ideas in formal logic. And how to express these in the notation of the field. There is also plenty in the way of examples, to aid your learning. Lots of truth tables, and how to translate a statement into a predicate form. Chapters have exercises, some of which even have answers. So the book is suitable for an undergraduate text. The only thing missing is a discussion of how the logic might be implemented on a computer. Perhaps, specifically, using Lisp. While that language has some real world problems, its expressive power lends itself to manipulating logic.