Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

This is a second course in symbolic logic. Our course presupposes you have had a first course in symbolic deductive logic, such as Sac State's PHIL 60, or CSC 28, or you have learned this material on ...

Logical consistency is another branch of Deductive Logic. A set of sentences is said to be consistent if and only if there is at least one possible situation in which they are all true. If two ...

THIS book is intended for the use of students at the various Indian colleges, and will be regarded by most teachers of the subject as, upon the whole, a very good text-book. The author has read many ...

As this is the fourth edition—though enlarged and partly re-written—of the work under notice, it is not necessary to review it in detail. It is sufficient to mention, by way of reminder, that for the ...

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