Introductory Logic, Revised Edition

by Douglas J. Wilson

Whether your students are learning in a brick-and-mortar school or a homeschool or online, you teachers and parents know how important logic is - but that doesn't make the technical aspects of the subject any easier (in fact the fundamental nature of the subject makes it even more intimidating!). We've painstakingly designed Introductory Logic with that tension in you'll get the benefit of James B. Nance's twenty years of teaching experience, making ingraining the fundamentals of logic in your students as painless (and rewarding!) as possible.Anybody can learn from Introductory Logic. The whole series takes advantage of a brand new, clean, easy-to-read layout, lots of margin notes for key points and further study, a step-by-step modern method, and exercises for every lesson (plus review questions and exercises for every unit).More importantly, anybody can teach Introductory Logic. Here are the features that make the Teacher Edition for Introductory Logic the obvious choice for educators new to logic, no matter where they daily lesson schedule for completing Introductory Logic in a semester or a year-long course.Answers to all exercises, review questions, review exercises, quizzes, and tests in the order they are taught.Contains the entire Student Edition text -- with the same page numbers as the Student Edition! No more flipping back and forth between answer keys and textbook.Detailed daily lesson plans for the entire textbook explain each lesson'sdaily Student ObjectivesSpecial Notesstep-by-step Teaching Instructions with bolded terms, advice, and more examples,Assignments for each lessonOptional Exercises for further exploration and integration.

Genres: Education, Philosophy

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1992

About the author

Most of this author's works are written under the name Douglas Wilson.

Reviews

[Brent Pinkall · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent resource for children and adults. Nance and Wilson present logic in a very accessible way. Each lesson builds on the other, and none of them are long or tedious. The examples are well conceived, as are the exercises and quizzes. If you are teaching logic, I would recommend not teaching all of the informal fallacies together, as the book suggests, but rather teaching one each week.

[Emily Wiseman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finishing this book was like walking out of the gym after a challenging workout. It hurts, and it’s exhausting, but you’re glad you did the hard work because it’s a type of knowledge worth grappling with. This book was a really solid introduction to a very complex topic. I used it with my 8th grade daughter and her class in our homeschool program, and it was approachable for us, though probably not written expressly for middle school students. It is written with a Biblical worldview in mind, which comes through in the philosophy of why we study logic and in the examples chosen to practice the concepts. This was something I really appreciated—though at times the chosen examples muddied the waters of the isolated logic concept in question, simply because the theology was too big to fit nicely into the black and white example. Overall, I’m glad we worked our way through it cover to cover, but it was not an easy journey! Now on to the sequel: Intermediate Logic!

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This books makes a complex subject understandable, even for old brains like mine. The exercises are loss formulaic than those in other introductory logic books making it more challenging but also more conducive to true understanding. The author provides many real-world applications, which provide me the hope that I can take the concepts learned with me and face the world.

[Unchong Berkey · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a good course book to understand and teach formal and informal logic. Teaches syllogisms, valid and invalid arguments, fallacies...as a society I wish we knew better how to make good, valid arguments.

[JR Snow · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't really like the way the fallacies are organized, but the formal logic section is great.

[Skylar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alright but I believe that there are better logic textbooks out there. For being able to jump in and have a lot of content created for you though, this is good.