The Power of Logic

by Frances Howard-Snyder, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Ryan Wasserman

This fifth edition of The Power of Logic offers an introduction to informal logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic. The authors’ direct and accessible writing style, along with a wealth of engaging examples and challenging exercises, makes this an ideal text for today’s logic classes.

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Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Logic, Textbooks

672 pages, Hardcover

Published March 22, 2012

Reviews

[Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I was a senior at Eckerd College (founded as Florida Presbyterian in 1958) in 2009, I was required to pass one single "#math" course in order to actually graduate from college to earn a stupid piece of paper. I was exempt from a foreign language requirement because I had already completed two years of French in 7th and 8th grade and four years of honors (oui, oui) French in High School before I was old enough to legally vote.

"Intro to Logic" was literally do or die, and maybe even more fun than the seminal Boston Punk anthemic debut LP by the Dropkick Murphys with OG townie front man, Mike McColgan, as produced by the one and only hellcat Lars Frederiksen of Rancid.

A long time ago in a commonwealth not so far away, I caught Lah's guitah pick at a Rancid hashtagupthepunx show and we used it on my first shitty band's first shitty agnostic full-length LP. Catching a pick is logically the punk rock bucket-list standard equivalent of catching a foul ball at an MLB baseball game. I gave it to my dangerous Les Paul, sometimes shitbird-wielding dickhead compadre, like the true gentleman at the ballgame who gives the foul ball to the whimpering child with soggy puppy dog eyes fawning next to him.

There once was a romanticized time in the streets of Boston* before the dawn of TikTok where song-writing actually still mattered and he was the Johnny Ramone to my Joey, the Mick Jones to my Joe Strummer, the Lennon to my McCartney, the Bert to my Ernie.

Now, if you pen a double albums worth of original songs completely by yourself mostly as a cheap parlor trick just to slay a desired target like a Fortnite sniper, the results might not yet yield the desired effect.

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If you actually believe in magic, using Lars' pick on your debut street punk album should transmute the energy of the fabled mythic and growly Nordic beast. If you adhere more to the realm of logic, the guitar tones were substandard because someone reluctantly forgot to bring the Marshall amp to the recording studio and we were forced to go direct-in and diplomatically haggle with the Berklee kid charging an arm and a leg who was engineering the album to actually give a shit instead of torching honest 9-5 working class money to try and find the favored rock n' roll tonez. #logistics

Francis Howard-Snyder's The Power of Logic 4th Edition is wholefartedly the finest academic textbook I have ever learned from and I have two framed pieces of paper I earned from actually committing to learning post-secondary education practices upon normal completion of normal high school in The Bay State.

Regardless of where one's beating heart galvanizes on the faith or spirituality scale or what lucky charms they decide to actively wear around their neck or permanently ink on their skin, logic is the foundation of academic philosophy and a stimulating competence to unlock mental productivity and finite organizational methods.

I review The Power of Logic 4th Edition and my in-class notes regularly because even if you actually want to believe in God, or fate, or angels, and/or most importantly love, decoding #logic is an incredibly useful keycard to unlocking a vault of golden treasures somewhere just beyond the outskirts of the most alluring and blissful rainbow. [shamrock emoji]

I completed "Introduction to Logic" with a final grade over 100 because I also did all the extra credit homework and because #logic is magically delicious.

* Track 3, Boys On The Docks EP (1997)

[skylar · Rating 4 out of 5]

i technically only read 1-6 and chap 10 but that’s what was assigned to me okay and that’s most of it so i’m counting it af

[Joshua · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a clear and engaging introduction to deductive and symbolic logic with one chapter on inductive logic. The chapters sequentially build on one another, and the text provides argument examples from various sources including pop-culture, politics, and philosophy.

[Badrawy Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

"The Power of Logic" tries to give us a perception and a realization of the every-day dialogue between people. As our talks and conversations always contain arguments based on many reasons, here we audit these arguments and check their validity in our conversations.

The tongue is a small thing, but what enormous damage it can do. The human being is the most convoluted and creature I have seen until now. There are many aspects in this creature which are already explored, and there are still hidden ones. Many details we can try to audit while we are trying to know more about him. So, here we can learn how to think before talking with, believing in, and acting to that complex creature. Because it is not that easy to be against him, or to be him.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Textbook. Short, concise and very useful. I still come back to it from time to time when trying to make an argument.

[So Hakim · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of -- if not the -- most effective book on logic I've come across. As is common with such books, the authors spend time explaining about syllogism, truth tables, etc. However it's more about how they are explained that takes the cake.

Extraordinarily flowing prose (for this kind of book!), plenty of examples, counterexamples, and how to dissect arguments properly. A pleasant surprise happened at the last chapter: they included note on Bayesian Logic! Which is nice considering.

5 stars, would recommend.

[Crystal · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was hard for me to follow. The authors seemed to repeat themselves quite often. The definitions they used were not clear and were not well thought out.

[Rishi Kulkarni · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the problem sets.

[Miranda · Rating 3 out of 5]

PHI 103: Logic

[Asmanic · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great introduction to logic and philosophy.