Intermediate Logic Pack (Books & Tests)

Studying formal logic can be intimidating without the right help, but knowing how to think logically isn't just for "experts." Logic should be your secret weapon. It's the tool for learning how to use other tools. It's the bones that give a clenched fist its structure (and knuckles). With that in mind, we have painstakingly designed Intermediate Logic for everyday students, teachers, and parents who've never used truth tables or formal proofs of validity to work with syllogisms, but who know just how important and applicable learning logic is.

In Intermediate Logic, you'll get the benefit of our years of teaching experience to help you master propositional arguments: How to interpret and analyze logical operators and truth tables by reviewing and applying the concepts of validity, contradiction, consistency, and equivalence; How to internalize the nine basic rules of inference to derive an argument's conclusions from its premises; How to easily determine consistency, self-contradiction, tautology, equivalence, and validity by using truth trees; How to apply all these skills to real-life thinkers and writers wherever you encounter them; An all-new optional unit on understanding digital logic, the "language" which modern gadgets (from digital alarm clock displays to computer processors) use to function.

Anybody can learn Intermediate Logic. Brand new, clean, easy-to-read layout, lots of margin notes for key points and further study, a step-by-step modern method, and exercises for every lesson (plus review questions and review exercises for every unit) all make Intermediate Logic the perfect choice for establishing a concrete and applicable knowledge of propositional arguments. This course won first place in Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards for Logic curriculum."

Intermediate Logic is perfect for Grade 8+ students, teachers, and parents who've never tackled syllogisms or fallacies before.

It provides a semester or year's worth of logic to help you detect and deflect flawed or deceitful arguments and to think, debate, and argue well.

Inside Intermediate Logic

Lesson Scope of Intermediate Logic

• Intermediate Logic helps you:
• Discern between valid, consistent, equivalent, and contradictory statements by learning how arguments rely on logic operators (Unit 1—Truth Tables)
• Predict what someone’s about to conclude using the nine basic rules of thinking (Unit 2—Formal Proofs of Validity)
• Judge contradictory claims by testing consistency, self-contradiction, tautology, equivalence, and validity (Unit 3—Truth Trees)
• Follow the train of thought of famous thinkers and writers by easily identifying “chains of thought” (Unit 4—Applying the Tools to Arguments)
• Optional: Understand how digital devices work by learn the basics of programming through digital logic (Unit 5—Digital Logic).

Contents of Intermediate Logic

• Student Edition
  • 40 lessons covering propositional arguments.
  • sidebars with definitions, key points, cautions, suggestions for further study, activities for thinking deeper, and historical information
  • perforated pages with practice exercises
• Teacher's Edition
  • a daily lesson schedule for completing Intermediate Logic in a semester or a year-long course.
  • answers to all exercises, review questions, review exercises, quizzes, and tests in the order they are taught.
  • contains the entire Student Edition text—with the same page numbers as the Student Edition! No more flipping back and forth between answer keys and textbook.
  • daily lesson plans with step-by-step teaching advice, objectives, and assignments
• Tests & Quizzes
  • quizzes every two or three lessons (not just tests)
    
  • two versions of each test for extra practice
  • answers in 3rd Ed. Intro Teacher
  • looseleaf, resealable packets to prevent copying