Deductive Logic in Natural Language

This text offers an innovative approach to the teaching of logic, which is rigorous but entirely non-symbolic.By introducing students to deductive inferences in natural language, the book breaks new ground pedagogically.Cannon focuses on such topics as using a tableaux technique to assess inconsistency; using generative grammar; employing logical analyses of sentences; and dealing with quantifier expressions and syllogisms.An appendix covers truth-functional logic.