Abstract
In this chapter and a later one we will try, without teaching much logic or mathematics, to explain a little about how these disciplines work, why they are important in science, and how they are used.
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Reference Notes
- 1.Lewis Carroll, Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic (New York: Dover Publications, 1958), p. 119.Google Scholar
- 2.Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel, An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1934), p. 322. Copyright 1934 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc; renewed 1962 by Ernest Nagel and Leonora Cohen Rosenfield. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.Google Scholar
Suggested Reading
- Cohen, Morris R., and Ernest Nagel, An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1934.Google Scholar
- Flew, Anthony. Thinking Straight. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1977.Google Scholar
- Kahane, Howard. Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life. 3rd ed. Wadsworth, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1980.Google Scholar
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