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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Extras:


The Logical Content of an English Sentence


The Digestor's Digest


Some detailed answers


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This chapter introduces the language of sentential logic and its use in analyzing English language sentences and arguments. We also discuss how to attack the premises of an English language argument. Further paradoxes make their appearance.

Formal topics:
  • Truth and falsity
  • The translation of English into Sentential

Informal topics:
  • How to rebut the premises of an argument

Supplementary topics:
  • Paradoxes of Grelling and Berry
  • The magic of the word "buffalo."
  • Russell as Pope
  • Puzzles