Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic

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Don't let the title of the first work mislead you - this isn't about modern symbolic logic but about ways of expressing classical logic with symbols. It's loaded with amusing problems to delight any mathematical puzzler.

In the second work, Carroll turns logic into a game played with diagrams and colored counters, giving you hundreds of challenging and witty syllogisms to solve.

Originally these books were intended for children.

Amazon.com Review:
Yes, this is the Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland, and these two works show the same quirky humor. Here you see Carroll the mathematician at his playful best. Don't let the title of the first work mislead you--this isn't about modern symbolic logic but about ways of expressing classical logic with symbols. It's loaded with amusing problems to delight any mathematical puzzler. In the second work he turns logic into a game played with diagrams and colored counters, giving you hundreds of challenging and witty syllogisms to solve. Great mind-stretching fun.

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Over 350 ingenious problems involving classical logic: logic is expressed in terms of symbols; syllogisms and the sorites are diagrammed; logic becomes a game played with two diagrams and a set of counters. Two books bound as one.

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ISBN13: 9780486204925
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Item number (ASIN): 0486204928
Author: Lewis Carroll
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.74
ISBN: 0486204928
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Package Dimensions: 70 x 540 x 780 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: June 1, 1958
Publisher: Dover Publications
Binding: Paperback

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- An unexamined Life? One must learn how to examine first, right?
Lewis Carroll {a.k.a Charles Dodgson} ... used to teach this 'stuff' to 14-year olds... with the new advent of media-entertainment: from playstation to blu-ray and everything between... all hand-eye coordintation aside.... our intelects and ability to learn has suffered.. I won't lie; this took we the better part of a year to assimilate.... all the nuances Carroll has for 'Learners'.... he even gives instructions in his intro in how to go about just that... In short; this book changed my life.... at the risk of sounding 'blasphemous' I would say its almost more important then the bible.... for it has allowed me to seek its truth in a whole new light...as well as any disciplined study I now find interest in...just as Mr. Dodgson in his playful way promised.. I believe it was Socrates that once said: "An unexamined life is not worth living" ; Carroll upgrades the outdated examination-tool of Magnigying Glass to Hubbel-Telescope... it really is this good if your patient with yourself{another Carrollinian-tip} and persevere with the exercises built right there into the book.. All People who read this book will be changed for ever. All People changed for ever will in turn change others for the better. All People who change others for the better, will be changed for better. Though this may sound like a good, moral argument... it is not a sound one.... I hope you look me up sometime and tell me why... details awaiting inside....

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- Symbolic logic still useful
Probably is not often taught any more as it has been replaced by other methods, still has use because it teaches alternate methods and formats of solving logic problems. Since this book was not written recently the language can be a bit confusing, but otherwise is a quick and somewhat enjoyable read.

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- This ain't Wonderland
Some books you read to relax, some to learn, and some...well, some will make you think and wonder and grow. This is one of those. The problems here have been around for more than a century, and yet they are still as effective in teaching logic as the day they were written. If you are getting ready for the LSAT, this is not a bad place to start. If you just want to tease your intellect, this is a great source for hours of amusement.

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- Content 5 Stars, Format 1 Star - Averages out
Lewis Carroll's contents timeless and fundamental and should be interesting to anybody with interest in Symbolic Logics or even simple logical problem solving. However, I am kicking myself for not looking at the published year and having been fooled by the snazzy cover into assuming that the presentation would be of contemporary standards. It is ditto reproduction of fonts and pagination from the original, which a contemporary reader would have a tough time keeping up. Just look at the Table of Contents befor you buy.

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- Reminds us that math can be FUN
Math is fun, but the rhetoric of most 'taught' (probably an overstatement) math (and, by extension, logic) is so incredibly dry that the forest is rarely seen for the bark on the trees. But here Carroll, with tongue lodged firmly in cheek, turns the rhetoric (and by extension, the way we think about math problems) on its ear, and the result is an often incredibly funny approach to math and logic problems which stays with you and ultimately worms its way into your quotidian. I'll also say that, as an atrociously poor student in high school, this book allowed me to ace the SATs, and then ten years later the GREs.