The quantified exercises given begin to develop intuition as to the most efficient ways to combine multiple operations--such he...  Read More

The quantified exercises given begin to develop intuition as to the most efficient ways to combine multiple operations--such heuristics are key to designing automated proof generators.  Read Less

The two nicest features of this book are the wealth of interesting exercises and the emphasis on language: the correspondence b...  Read More

The two nicest features of this book are the wealth of interesting exercises and the emphasis on language: the correspondence between sentences in english and propositions in logic.  Read Less

On all copies that i have encountered, the glued pages were breaking away from the spine after only a few months of regular use.

On all copies that i have encountered, the glued pages were breaking away from the spine after only a few months of regular use.  Read Less

Tree notations blows upcombinatorially, and become useless for anything but toyproblems.

Tree notations blows upcombinatorially, and become useless for anything but toyproblems.  Read Less

I expect that there are already computer programs that can take english text, translate the english into symbols and analyze th...  Read More

I expect that there are already computer programs that can take english text, translate the english into symbols and analyze the symbols for their truth value.  Read Less

These are mostly philosophy instructors who, time and time again, have come back to copi from brief forays into other texts (su...  Read More

These are mostly philosophy instructors who, time and time again, have come back to copi from brief forays into other texts (such as jeffrey's), always citing the same things: copi's techniques are the easiest to teach in introductory logic classes, especially compared to any other comparable textbook out there.  Read Less

It is probably no worse or no better than an other book of this arcane subject ofsymbolic logic.

It is probably no worse or no better than an other book of this arcane subject ofsymbolic logic.  Read Less

Overall, though, if you are just starting out in symbolic logic, you might find howard pospesel's books more useful and perhaps...  Read More

Overall, though, if you are just starting out in symbolic logic, you might find howard pospesel's books more useful and perhaps a bit cheaper.  Read Less