Introductory Logic: The Fundamentals of Thinking Well, Student Edition (Canon Logic Series)
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Overview
Required by Classical Conversations for thousands of CC Challenge students every year.
Studying formal logic can be intimidating without the right help, but knowing how to think logically isn’t just for “experts.” Logic should be your secret weapon. It’s the tool for learning how to use other tools. It's the bones that give a clenched fist its structure (and knuckles). With that in mind, we have painstakingly designed Introductory Logic for everyday students, teachers, and parents who’ve never tackled syllogisms or fallacies before, but who know just how important learning logic is.
In Introductory Logic, you’ll get the benefit of our years of teaching experience as you learn the fundamentals you need to think well wherever you are, including:
Introductory Logic is perfect for Grade 7+ students, teachers, and parents who’ve never tackled syllogisms or fallacies before. It provides a semester or year’s worth of logic to help you detect and deflect flawed or deceitful arguments and to think, debate, and argue well.
Anybody can do Introductory Logic. Brand new, clean, easy-to-read layout, lots of margin notes for key points and further study, a step-by-step modern method, and exercises for every lesson (plus review questions and review exercises for every unit) all make Introductory Logic the perfect choice for establishing an in-your-bones knowledge of the fundamentals of thinking well.
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- Offers 40 lessons covering formal and informal logic
- Includes sidebars with definitions, key points, cautions, further study, activities and more
- Trains students to detect and deflect flawed or deceitful arguments and to think, debate, and argue well
- The Purposes and Types of Definitions
- Genus and Species
- Extension and Intension
- Methods of Defining
- Rules for Defining by Genus and Difference
- Unit 1 Review Questions
- Unit 1 Review Exercises
- Statements
- Self-Supporting Statements
- Supported Statements
- Relationships between Statements
- Consistency and Disagreement
- The One Basic Verb
- Standard Categorical Statements
- The Square of Opposition
- Contradiction
- Contrariety
- Subcontrariety
- Subimplication
- Superimplication
- Unit 2 Review Questions
- Unit 2 Review Exercises
- Arguments
- The Syllogism
- The Mood of Syllogisms
- The Figure of Syllogisms
- Truth and Validity
- Testing Syllogisms by Counterexample
- Distributed Terms
- Testing Syllogisms by Rules
- Unit 3 Review Questions
- Unit 3 Review Exercises
- Immediate Inferences
- Translating Ordinary Statements
- Translating Inclusive and Exclusive Statements
- Enthymemes
- Hypothetical Syllogisms
- Establishing Conclusions
- Unit 4 Review Questions
- Unit 4 Review Exercises
- Fallacies of Distraction
- Fallacies of Ambiguity
- Fallacies of Form
- Detecting Fallacies
- Unit 5 Review Questions
- Unit 5 Review Exercises
Unit I: Terms and Definitions
Unit II: Statements and their Relationships
Unit III: Syllogisms and Validity
Unit IV: Arguments in Normal English
Unit V: Informal Fallacies
- Title: Introductory Logic: The Fundamentals of Thinking Well (Student)
- Author: Canon Press
- Edition: FIFTH EDITION
- Series: Canon Logic Series
- Publisher: Canon Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 293
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Logic and reasoning › Study and teaching
- ISBNs: 9781591281658, 1591281652
- Resource ID: LLS:INTROLOGIC
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-07-30T21:41:37Z
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