Natural Deduction: An Introduction to Logic with Real Arguments, a Little History, and Some Humour

Richard Arthurs Natural Deduction provides a wide-ranging introduction to logic. In lively and readable prose Arthur presents a new approach to the study of logic one that seeks to integrate methods of argument analysis developed in modern informal logic with natural deduction techniques. The dry bones of logic are given flesh by unusual attention to the history of the subject from Pythagoras the Stoics and Indian Buddhist logic through Lewis Carroll Venn and Boole to Russell Frege and Monty Python.