Understanding Symbolic Logic (5th Edition)

• Publisher:   Prentice Hall
• Number Of Pages:   480
• Publication Date:   2007-04-29
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0132051524
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780132051521

For courses in Symbolic Logic Designed for those who have no prior background in logic, philosophy, or mathematics, this comprehensive introduction covers all the standard topics of symbolic logic through relational predicate logic with identity. Understanding Symbolic Logic, Fifth Edition, is completely reader-friendly. All concepts and theories are presented in small "bites," helping students to master the concepts of symbolic logic with confidence.

I really like this book. It's an excellent undergraduate introduction to logic for non-mathematicians. It's not dumbed down in any way. It's rigorous. The exercises are challenging and plentiful. Most importantly, it explains the basic concepts and tools of symbolic logic in a clear, unpretentious manner. (The 5th edition corrects the mistakes of the 4th.) By comparison, Copi seems unfocused and flabby; Bergmann & Moor comes off as unnecessarily muscular given the level of the material. An excellent choice.

This is a decent textbook. The third edition (this edition) is almost EXACTLY identical to the fourth edition, all the exercises are the same, the only difference being the page numbers. Despite being overly wordy in more places than one (see: Unit 1-26, i.e. the whole book...) some of the examples and exercises can be rather amusing. It may seem like an overwhelming amount of material at first, but if you stick with it, it really isn't that difficult. As long as you take it slowly, and your instructor is able to explain things in simpler terms than the book, you'll do just fine.

This book is the best introduction to logic on the market. Others have made this clear--incuding professors of logic (of both the philosophical and mathematical sort). The reason why I am writing this is because I was flabbergasted to read a couple of the reviews of this book that appear on this website. Anyone that rates this book under four stars was perhaps unsuccessful in logic, tried to blame their lack of ability on Klenk's wonderful text, and didn't have enough ability to begin logic anyway. Logic is difficult. However, this book is completely readable, assuming the one reading it is careful. People that want to be more spoon-fed than how this book attempts, should not begin the topic.

After attempting an intro to symbolic logic course using the text, "The Logic Book", this other text "Understanding Symbolic Logic" was a godsend! It is very useful and easily understood. I really hope that professors require this as the primary text for their course. Perhaps, if this book is used rather than "The Logic Book", then maybe students will actually pass the course!!!!

Klenk is an old-style text that does little to organize information in a reader-friendly format. The errors introduced in the 4th edition make the situation worse. If you understand symbolic logic, this is the book you use to refresh your knowledge; if you are just learning the topic, don't even hesitate - pass on this book and get another. If you have no choice, be sure to purchase a supplemental text.

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