Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one : Introduction -- Part two : Predicate logic -- Part three : Traditional logic -- Part four : Induction, probability, and scientific method -- Part five : More on symbolic logic -- Part six : Modal, epistemic and deontic logic

The purpose of this fifth edition is the same as the first : to provide students with a clear, concise, comprehensible introduction to a complete system for sentential and first order predicate logic ; the fundamentals of the traditional syllogistic logic ; an empiricist account of the logic scientific inference ; and related material on logic and philosophy.