Elements of Logical Reasoning by Jan von Plato (PDF)

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Some of our earliest experiences of the conclusive force of an argument come from school mathematics: faced with a mathematical proof, we cannot deny the conclusion once the premises have been accepted. Behind such arguments lies a more general pattern of ‘demonstrative arguments’ that is studied in the science of logic. Logical reasoning is applied at all levels, from everyday life to advanced sciences, and a remarkable level of complexity is achieved in everyday logical reasoning, even if the principles behind it remain intuitive. Jan von Plato provides an accessible but rigorous introduction to an important aspect of contemporary logic: its deductive machinery. He shows that when the forms of logical reasoning are analysed, it turns out that a limited set of first principles can represent any logical argument. His book will be valuable for students of logic, mathematics and computer science.

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⭐This is a magnificent introduction to what the author calls “the deductive machinery of logic”. The book concentrates in a thorough exposition of propositional and predicate logic as seen through Gentzen systems, Natural Deduction and Sequent Calculus. The author also gives an exposition to the semantic aspects of propositional and predicate logic, introducing the reader to Kripke semantics for intuitionistic logic. Also, there is a reconstruction of past systems of logic such as Aristotle, Peano, Frege, Russell and Heyting. Its themes goes hand in hand with Stephen Cole Kleene ‘s Mathematical Logic (1967), L. T. F. Gamut’ s Logic, Language, and Meaning (Vol. I), and, of course, previous work exposited by the author and his wife, Sara Negri, in two of their major œuvres: Structural Proof Theory (2001) and Proof Analysis: A Contribution to Hilbert’s Last Problem (2011).

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