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If learning is important to you then this is a book that will not only give you important knowledge but help teach you how to learn and think more clearly. The book is organized with versatility in mind and can be used by a teacher, a self-learner and... Read More
This extraordinary book is both humbling and enlightening. The book is very informational and more so than i thought it would be.
Peter kreeft is a philosophy professor, writer and renowned apologist. He presents all the classic features of logic, and the salient departures from the classic approach to logic. He guides his readers along gently and guides them through the process... Read More
Cons
The use of the traditional inclusive generic pronoun he is a decision of language, not of gender injustice. Another alternative is the politically intrusive in-your-face generic she. If you want a secular textbook, this ain't it.
The fallacy of suppressed evidence is a fallacy of presumption. Because the antecedent of a conditional statement is not asserted to be true, it presents no evidence. It's one thing to argue in favor of essentialism; it's quite another to claim that e... Read More
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Quality
Very well organized and well put together from beginning to end
Should you wish to be able to separate the intellectual wheat from the chaff this is an excellent place to start
I have read several textbooks on critical thinking philosophy this book stands apart since its based on essence of real world ... Read More
If you understand socratic logic you can dismantle bad ideas quickly and effectively without appealing to emotions over sound reason
Price
That means i have to pay the price and translate chunks of it
With the student loans costing over a trillion dollars and with real education dissipating right before our eyes within the con... Read More
Competitiveness
But it might have been so much better if professor kreeft and his publisher had added a general index and a glossary to the work
Nevertheless it is 1000 times better than copicohen introduction to logic
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- This product had a total of 302 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 17 2024.
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Kreeft misunderstands socalled modern logic confusing it with metaphysics
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After awhile the comments get annoying and they tend to get worse in quality as the book goes on
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As in they dont actually test what the topic is
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Most of them are fine but somewhere around 5 of them seem more oriented towards kreeft making criticisms of peoplepositions he disagrees with instead of actually being on the topic
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While the best introductory text kreeft is not the only modern text which discusses aristotelian logic of course this in part depends on just how recent a text has to be
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No noncatholic thinkers in aristotelian logic are referenced which misses out on a huge amount of the aristotelian tradition
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At the core of any work especially something so foundational a topic as logic lies a particular web of beliefs and principles that the authors bring to the table
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Starts with the basics and gets more involved into math which im no good at
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