Reddit reviews A Concise Introduction to Logic

Here are a few links to different Intro to Logic texts that teach Syllogistic Logic. Gensler is the cheapest and has an easy method for testing validity, called the star test, but is less traditional. The others take a more traditional approach.

Gensler

Hurley

Copi

Also, you may want to try Carneades.org. He has video series on the subject:

Categorical Logic at Carneades.org

Hope this helps!

Telling someone they misunderstood you isn't an ad hominem attack.

Neither is making a polite recommendation.
https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Introduction-Logic-Patrick-Hurley/dp/1285196546/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VHMJ1YAND37MCWY17062

It's actually a pretty breezy read for the subject matter. Graeme Forbes has another text out there somewhere but as bright as the man was I thought he taught in a way that worked only for the students that already "got it"

> Like I said before, it was a smartass response that you're reading too far into.

Like I said before, it was a very basic inference. You're looking way too much into what I was saying.

> Saying "a mix of both idiots and intellegent people who are idiotic" rather than "idiots" doesn't have the same ring to it.

You're reading your own use of the word into his statement. Maybe that is what he meant, but that's not what the logic of his statement said, which is why I was asking him about it.

Here are a couple texts that I think you would benefit from.

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• Numbah 2
  
  The first one is really solid, but it's expensive. The second one isn't as robust, but it gets the job done, and it's significantly cheaper.
  
  > i'm out.
  
  Cheers :)

https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Introduction-Logic-Patrick-Hurley/dp/1285196546/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1504277214&sr=1-2&keywords=logic

As for your constant seeking of validation, i'll let life solve that for ya

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