logic vs emotion
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When attempting to learn formal logic, you have to be wary of getting disillusioned and disheartened, oft times from the initial difficulty. Unlike normal education where we gather information, learning logic is trying to teach yourself how to think - which is much harder.
You should always start with a beginner’s introduction. I suggest ‘Introduction to Logic’ by Harry J. Gensler if you want a primer into all the various forms of Logic given to you in an unassuming prose. He gives a lot of explanations, examples, and exercises. Then there’s the fabulous LogiCola software he’s invented to practise with. He also often gives quotes from philosophical texts so you can try your new skills out for yourself.
If you’d like to spend more time learning ‘critical thinking’ before moving on-to formal logic, you should pick up ‘Introduction to Logic’ by Irving Copi, which only teaches basic syllogistic and propositional logic, but does so expertly and with *a lot* of depth and explanations.
Other such introductions include the one by Peter Smith, who is a professor at Cambridge (though I personally don’t like it very much), or Paul Teller’s ‘Logic Primer’ which is freely available (but out of print).
If you want a *really* basic text (essentially one like an ‘Idiot’s Guide’) then you could also go for Guttenplan’s ‘The Language of Logic’ - but unless you’re extremely bad at reasoning or mathematics I doubt you’d need it.
If you don’t want to learn formal logic per se, but only want the mathematical side of it, I would suggest going with ‘An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning’ by Peter J. Eccless. It also starts with truth-tables, but then moves on directly to problems of axiomisation and sets. However, fair warning: its often harder to read any form of logic, be it mathematical, philosophical or fuzzy without a basic categorical thinking. Using Gensler or Copi will help you acquire that.