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- Desh Raj Sirswal, A Class-Room Introduction to Logic. A Class-Room Introduction to Logic.These class notes were prepared for first paper entitled Principles of Logic in Diploma-in-Reasoning of Department of Philosophy, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, to help the students, when I taught in this course last three years. Basically I used collection of materials from different sources viz. printed books as well as internet sources to prepare it. You can find our course syllabus in my post “Philosophy is Nothing without Logic” at The Positive Philosophy page. This is only a first draft, kindly send your suggestions and ideas to dr.sirswal@gmail.com or niyamak.drs@gmail.com, I shall be highly thankful to you and a short list of books are mentioned below of the Table of Contents and reference sites are linked with this page. This page introduces the basic conceptions of formal logic, informal logic and also Symbolic logic.No categoriesIn my reading list | Discuss this article | Edit | Categorize |My bibliography
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