Logic, or critical thinking, is especially important in this era of a steady stream of information that bombards us every day, and we need help making sense of it all.
This book is a beginners guide to learning to think logically. It’s an excellent primer to more advanced books, such as by Copi or Gensler.
My notes are different from my format in previous posts. In this case my reading notes have been uploaded to a knowledge management system called Obsidian. Obisidian resides on my computer, which makes it easy to locate my notes, and to associate them with similar ideas from other notes that also live in Obsidian. You can learn more about Obsidian via reading here or via a video here.
Here are the titles, or summaries, of each of my notes. Details are embedded inside the notes themselves.
- In logic, first truths, or axioms, are key
- Pay attention to your senses to capture key details
- make sure that your sources are credible when establishing logical premises
- All writing, including philosophical or academic writing, requires us to define our terms.
- “..the best instruments in incompetent hands don’t bring about the best effects”
- Evaluative statements require arguments to support them
- logical statements, or premises, are either true or false
- Knowledge is comprised of facts, ideas, and words
- Logic and Language are Inseparable