Logical Reasoning

Cantstandsya

Hi, not sure if this is the right section but since boards.ie has about 10 billion specific sections it's pretty tough to figure out where to post a question.

I'd like to learn a bit about logical reasoning/reasoning in general ... Just wondering if anyone could point me towards any good resources (books mainly) that would be good a good place to start?

cranks

Try these to get you started:
1. 'A Profile of Mathematical Logic' by Howard DeLong
2. ' The g Factor: the science of mental ability (human evolution, behavior and intelligence)' by Arthur Jensen
1 will require you to do a bit of logical reasoning and 2 will give you a sense of what you're lacking if you find 1 difficult.

JuliusCaesar

There's a subset of philosophy called Logic - it might help if we'd a better idea of what your question about logic & reason is.

sadie9

See Syllogistic Reasoning, this might be what you are after.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism

Cantstandsya

Hey, thanks for all the replies will have a read of the links and check out some of the books.

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

There's a subset of philosophy called Logic - it might help if we'd a better idea of what your question about logic & reason is.

Basically I'm just interested in learning about logic and reasoning, how to form arguments, learn about deduction etc. I've never really read anything about it so just looking for the basics... an introduction.

JuliusCaesar

Probably better off in Philosophy than Psychology so. :-) JC

Francis O Blibhionn

The book 'Informal Logic' by Douglas Waltan discusses, with examples, the different contexts that people argue in, the mechanisms that are used to prove the thesis, and a great deal about the many fallacies and irrational jumps are often used.

As the name suggests, it isn't concerned with formal predicate logic, but logic in the sense of 'well formed' chains of statements that prove or disprove a thesis, particularly how they interact when people are trying to establish opposing points.

I'm still currently reading it, but from what I've read, I'd recommend it.