Formal Logic -- China Collection. Philosophy and Social Sciences Category

Author: Jin Yuelin
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is the first national college logic textbook organized by the modern philosopher and logician Jin Yuelin in the 1960s, featuring experts and scholars researching logic at that time. It represents the highest level of formal logic textbooks in China at the time. It was revised for the second edition in 1979. The book is divided into seven chapters, providing a detailed introduction to the objects and functions of formal logic, concepts, judgments, deductive reasoning, induction, as well as the fundamental principles of formal logic and argumentation. The appendix briefly introduces relevant materials on the history of Western logic and Chinese logic. The language is concise and easy to understand, having influenced generations of young students and a large number of logic enthusiasts and self-learners. It remains an important reading material for studying logic to this day. The edition used in this book is the October 1979 version published by the People's Publishing House.