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Product Review Summary: Good introduction to logic This book provides a good introduction to logic, while using a lot of examples from Scripture.
Product Review Summary: Qualified Overview on Logic Yet with Religious Agenda Come Let Us Reason is a complete overview of introductory logic, its practical uses, and its impact on everyday life. Included are sections on the methodology of scientific study, an outline of introductory probability, and an in depth look at fallacies.
Geisler and Brooks convey the material in a lucid and efficient manner assuring the content is easy to understand. The book is weakened by a slight bias toward religious views that tends to disrupt the flow of the material if your intent is to learn only of logic. Religion as a premise requires elements of faith, which has its place, yet in a book on logic it creates a clear contradiction and does not feel apposite when viewed with objectivity.
Although qualified and wide-ranging, I recommend reading a book on logic that carries no agenda. Better reading options are "With Good Reason" by S. Morris Engel and "A Rulebook for Arguments" by Anthony Weston.
Product Review Summary: Highly Technical, For Serious Learners Only If you don't have time to study, think through and review the lessons and do the "homework" at the end of each chapter, this book is going to be painful and easily out of control, by which I mean you will probably be lost unless you keep track of the materials covered in the previous chapters. Though I completed reading the entire book, I was only able to keep up with the first few chapters, reviewing and doing the exercise, and they are not easy. If I were to grade myself, I believe I barely got a C perhaps because I wasn't serious enough since I wasn't using this book in a more disciplined classroom environment. I wish I did. With this said, I have to say Geisler did an excellent job. This is an intro to logic with Christian overtone, a solid foundation for rational apologetics.
Product Review Summary: Bud-wiser This here kind of book reading made my brain hurt so I drank some more beer.
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I thought I should lighten up the psychobabble, I hope you smiled.
Product Review Summary: Really thorough but accessible. Geisler covers a good bit of ground in his intro to logic, but he's such a good logician AND good communicator, he makes it highly graspable (which may not be a word...no, it is, I checked.)
Of course, this is written from a Christian perspective, so it's not likely to appeal to some philosophy students, totally cynical and agnostic by the time they take their logic class. But anyone who's familiar with Geisler knows he's a dang walking-talking-debating-master of logic, so this really should work for anyone.
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