Introductory Logic: The Fundamentals of Thinking Well Student Edition (Canon Logic)

Reading through this as an adult I am learning so much! This type of book should be required for high school.

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Almost done going through the book. It’s a very well written and thorough introduction to logic. It’s written by a Christian organization and is used in a curriculum. It’s important to note, the book is not intended to impose religion as some reviewers have proposed, although it does assume the person reading is religious or won’t be offended by a few minor religious references. The sole purpose of the book is to teach the basics of logic and argument formulation and it does this very well.It’s a very thorough introduction to logic that takes you through everything you would need to know as a beginner such as Aristotle’s 3 laws of logic, categorical logic, propositional logic, Analyzing statements, square of opposition, contradiction, contrariety, sub-implication, super-implication, forming premises and conclusions, syllogisms, moods and figures of syllogisms and much more.

I took a great Logic course in college and now 40 years later I bought this book to update, refresh, and reinforce my argumentation skills. Favorably, it does contain discussion of many useful concepts, but when I ordered it I didn’t realize that this was a religious - specifically Christian - textbook. I am Christian but my wife and dozens or more of my friends are not, be them Jewish, Buddhist, or whatever. As this book uses voluminous biblical references, such as, as early as page 1 it says “Reason is a gift from God,” which may or may not be true, based on other Logic textbooks. In fact , I still have my Logic textbook from college, and we went 18 weeks through the semester without making that proclamation. I think this book is offensive to non-Christians, and I would not recommend this book to anyone.

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Good for the price and only need a used book for school. Will purchase again from the vendor.

I bought a full set for my 6th grade daughter and her 8th grader friend to self-study. I read some of it along the way. The positives: this is the only introductory logic book that I can find, and it explains all concepts clearly and in painstaking precision in ways that are easily accessible to middle school students. Initially I thought that I would "tutor" the kids, but they just self-studied and used the teachers book to grade each other's homework and tests. So I am more than satisfied with the content. Now the negative: the religious content was more than I'd like to see. So my instruction to the kids was to ignore all of that. I saw several reviewers who gave negative reviews because of that, and I know another parent who decided against it because of it. But I think that if one can look past that (and ignore it like we did), this is an excellent introductory logic book and there is simply no alternative that I could find.