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Which of course is a good reason to learn logic to begin with just like its good to learn the basics of probability theory despite indeed because of the fact that most people are intuitively really bad at probabilities witness the success of the gambling industry

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The book does not give the reader the impression that everything is settled in logic

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It contains plenty of interesting examples and puzzles and as always with priests work points you to important philosophical issues tied up with the notions of logical consequence

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Actually not for the uninitiated

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We go far afield where we could have gone deeper into plain logic

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So if you just want logic and dont want philosophy choose another book

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The worry however is that priest takes this book as an opportunity to push his own nonstandard view on formal logic which is why a better title for this book would be a short introduction to priests logic

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His chapter on decision theory is in part devoted to showing how pascals wager goes wrong