Summary Of "Introduction To Logic" By Irving Copi - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

If you are looking to learn the secrets of logic, this book is ideal for you. Along with basic questions of the discipline, such as definitions, language, propositions, syllogisms, analogies and inferences, we especially recommend one of its axes: fallacies. Fallacies are reasonings that are apparently correct, but are actually tricks to convince others. These pseudo-reasonings are permanently used in politics, advertising and other spheres, and their effects can be very harmful.
So it is better to know how they are constructed and how they work, in order not to fall into the manipulative clutches. False arguments are everywhere: in a political spot for elections that seeks to convince you to vote for x candidate or in the advertising of a fashionable soap that promises eternal youth for your complexion. Irving Copi is a specialist in formal and non-formal logical fallacies.
This summary will help you understand and confront the uses and abuses of logic. So, whether it is not to vote for the candidate who is trying to fool you, not to buy the product that looks so good on TV but is not what it promised when you get your hands on it, or simply not to be fooled by that friend or relative who seems so sure of what he is arguing, this book will certainly help you. Do you think that reading and writing is important? Of course it is.
But so is learning the rules of logic and argument. This book introduces you to fallacies and fallacious reasoning in a nutshell. You will learn how to detect them and how to counter your opponent's arguments or avoid the danger of putting them into practice. Summary of "Introduction to Logic by Irving Copi" will undoubtedly help you understand, reason better and make better decisions. We have summarized the essentials of the following chapters: 1- INTRODUCTION, 2- THE USES OF LANGUAGE, 3- NON-FORMAL Fallacies, 4- DEFINITION, 5- CATEGORICAL PROPOSITIONS, 6- CATEGORICAL SYLOGYMS, 8- SYMBOLIC LOGIC, 11- ANALOGY AND PROBABLE INFERENCE and 12- CAUSAL CONNECTIONS: MILL'S METHODS FOR EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH.