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A review by katzemoos
Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
3.0
I have a hard time rating this book, as I honestly had a hard time understanding it.
I do not know what my expectations for a book about logic were, but I was definitely surprised by the amount of math. Seemingly the math was simple, there was just a lot of it and as a typical language/history/social sciences-person I had a hard time following. To me the word examples given made perfect sense, but as soon as letters and symbols started symbolising words and parts of sentences Priest lost me.
What this book did wonderfully was apply humour to the otherwise dry topic and bring interesting examples and understandable examples (when math was NOT involved). Having small snarky comments definitely assisted the readability and took part in motivating me to make it till the end!
In conclusion I did not get much out of this book a part from possibly being able to recognise a few names and terms later in life and a little bit about the history of logic and I expected an easier approach from an introductory book, but I think that this is definitely an interesting read if you are interested in logic, but a bit of pre-knowledge is required.
I do not know what my expectations for a book about logic were, but I was definitely surprised by the amount of math. Seemingly the math was simple, there was just a lot of it and as a typical language/history/social sciences-person I had a hard time following. To me the word examples given made perfect sense, but as soon as letters and symbols started symbolising words and parts of sentences Priest lost me.
What this book did wonderfully was apply humour to the otherwise dry topic and bring interesting examples and understandable examples (when math was NOT involved). Having small snarky comments definitely assisted the readability and took part in motivating me to make it till the end!
In conclusion I did not get much out of this book a part from possibly being able to recognise a few names and terms later in life and a little bit about the history of logic and I expected an easier approach from an introductory book, but I think that this is definitely an interesting read if you are interested in logic, but a bit of pre-knowledge is required.