| Q. | What is a good symbolic logic book to read? | Related Search:
Philosophy | | | Hi, I love Philosophy. However, what is a good symbolic logic book to read? I want to learn many philosophical concepts as much as possible. Which symbolic logic book is the easiest to understand and easy to follow along? Please provide the title and author...as usual. Thanks!
| | A. | Check out "Philosophy for Dummies" and "The Complete Idiots Guide to Philosophy"
Seriously | | | |
| Q. | symbolic logic? | Related Search:
Philosophy | | | why is there such thing? do we need it in our lives? this subject is a burden!
| | A. | just push it through, don't take your subjects for granted, you'll realize its importance someday..good luck! ^_^ | | | |
| Q. | On the topic of Symbolic logic and the like. Where may I be able to discover good excersises for practice? | Related Search:
Philosophy | | | Im looking for excersises to excel my practicalites in the area of symbolic logic and the like (Or anything that is similar that may help in writing aritcles of philosophy). Yes, I am a beginner in the subject so I would appreciate some assistance in discovering some websites that will increase my abilities to apply this subject--a website that may allow me to utilize this subject in a practical sense, not just reading the literal sense. I have to learn by doing, not just reading. I have some introductory material on the subject with some excersises in the books, but for some odd reason I still feel Im not getting the needed substance to press forward. Any additional information will help, and any suggestions would be accepted!! Perhaps even an example from someone, or pointers as well. Thanks so much. Blessings.
| | A. | Logicola is a simple software program that offers fun little logic exercises, like a game. It's very basic in its appearance, but it does the job. You should be able to find it online. Just do a simple search for "Logicola." | | | |
| Q. | How do you translate "a man loves a woman" into symbolic logic form? | Related Search:
Mathematics | | | I'm stuck on this question from my logic class. It's asking me to translate "a man loves a woman" into symbolic logic where I have to use L (x,y).
Can someone please help?
| | A. | It depends on what kind of symbolic logic and notation you've bought into. Say you have M = {x:x is a man}, W = {y:y is a woman}. I would imagine that you're saying L(x,y) is order significant so it means the set of (x,y) such that x loves y (L(x,y) = {(x,y):x is in M, y is in W, and x loves y}). "Is in" could be the epsilon symbol. Now you need existential quantifiers for x,y. Usually the backwards E is used. I'll call it bE. So bE x in M and bE y in W such that L(x,y). "in" could be the epsilon symbol and such that could be the backward epsilon symbol.
M = {x:x is a man}
W = {y:y is a woman}
L(x,y) = {(x,y):x is in M, y is in W, and x loves y}
bE x in M and bE y in W such that L(x,y) | | | |
| Q. | What exactly is symbolic logic? How does it assit in philosophical studies?Any websites that may help me learn | Related Search:
Philosophy | | | What exactly is symbolic logic? Also, Im quite new with philosophy, but was interested with logic from the beginning. Have I stumbled upon something that is of another category itself? It seems that Symbolic Logic is dealing with mathmatics more than philosophy, however, others have said that it is an essential study for any philosopher. I suppose my real question originates from the curiosity of how does it exactly assist in philosophical studies?
| | A. | symbolic logic is logic which uses symbols to determine the truth values of statements. Logic is what makes philosophy possible. Its not separate from philosophy, but I would say an area of study contained within it. Its not really dealing with mathematics more than philosophy. Its only mathematical in the sense that it takes strings of symbols and uses "equations" (the rules of logic) to determine truth. I guess it looks more mathematical than philosophy usually does, but its still very much philosophy. When I took symbolic logic I really enjoyed it. It provides relatively straightforward answers.
But just beware that classical logic itself can be questioned. I took my senior seminar on "philosophical foundations of logic" because I had liked symbolic logic so much. It was probably the hardest class I ever took. Questioning logic itself is not for the weak of mind. Anybody that studies philosophy of logic has my sincere respect, as well as my sympathy.
A quick example of symbolic logic:
in classical logic, modus ponens is one of the basic rules of logic. it says that if you accept the statements
"if p, then q"
"p"
as true, then you must conclude "q". If you make an argument and claim that "if p, then q" (for example: if God exists, then there is no unnecessary suffering in the world) and you accept that "p" exists (God exists), then you must conclude "q" (that no unnecessary suffering exists. You cannot claim "if p, then q" and "p," but then deny that "q" follows.
Logic forms the very basis of any form of argumentation (which is what makes questioning it so goddam frustrating; what logic do you use to argue about the existence of logic? :) ) Symbolic logic is just logic put into symbolic form. Without logic, there could be no possibility of philosophy, because nothing would have to follow from anything. Any claims could be made with no means of evaluating their truth. All philosophical arguments follow logical forms. Philosophers argue "x, thus y." But without logic, there would be no reason to conclude that "y" had to follow at all.
PS: i would totally agree with I *Heart* Plato that symbolic logic is very useful. I can seriously divide the classes i had taken before and after symbolic logic and can see a major difference in the clarity of my arguments. Logic forms the foundation of philosophical thought, and once you have taken a class where logical rules are clearly spelled out, your ability to make a case for something is greatly improved. | | | |
| Q. | Is symbolic logic a useful class to take? | Related Search:
Philosophy | | | For a math and science, is symbolic logic an interesting course?
| | A. | Usefulness is dependent on what you want to do in life.
interesting is something very subjective.
symbolic logic is certainly a required tool for Math analysis. | | | |
| Q. | In Formal Symbolic Logic, is there any other way to symbolize an "if, then" statement besides material? | Related Search:
Other - Social Science | | | implication? Is there a way of eliminating the matierial implication from symbolic logic with no logical loss?
| | A. | There are logically equivalent forms of the material conditional using disjunction or negated conjunction;
If P then Q
Either not-P or Q
Not both P and not-Q
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Symbolized:
P -> Q
~P v Q
~(P & ~Q) | | | |
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