The Snake and the Fox: An Introduction to Logic

by Mary Haight

The Snake and the Fox is a highly imaginative and fun way to learn logic. Mary Haight's characters guide you through an elaborate tale of how logic works. This book features the Snake and the Fox, Granny, Gussie and the Newts, Ren^De Descartes and Miss Nightingale, along with a huge supporting cast of humans, devils and sausage machines.
For anyone coming to logic for the first time, this is the best place to start. Mary Haight makes logic easy and fun - she asks the reader questions, and uses words instead of logic symbols with amusing pictures and characters to help them.
This book teaches all the basics the reader needs to know about logic (how arguments work, sound, valid reasoning, truth tables, Venn diagrams etc) in a truly enjoyable and innovative way. Anyone teaching themselves logic, or learning it on a course is bound to benefit fromthis original and intriguing book.

Genres: Philosophy, Logic

512 pages, Paperback

First published October 5, 1999

Reviews

[Homeyra · Rating 3 out of 5]

کتاب خوبیه؛ خیلی ساده و در قالب فصل‌های کوتاه منطق مقدماتی رو آموزش میده.
به درد کسایی می‌خوره که به قول نویسنده "مطالب خاصی در زمینه‌ی منطق یا فلسفه نیاموخته‌اند."
اما از ترجمه راضی نیستم.

[Tina Nazari · Rating 2 out of 5]

نمی شود توقع داشت یک کتاب در باب مقدمه منطق کسالت بار نباشد. اما شاید آن چه بیشتر باعث کسالت بار شدن کتاب می شد خیلی مقدماتی بودنش بود. بالشخصه نکته جدید زیادی یاد نگرفتم.

[Shannon]

I got this to help me in a logic class a few years ago. I'm dusting it off again to help me in some current writings for philosophy of mind.