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RE: [jboske] Any recommendations for Logic textbook?

At 08:19 PM 11/10/02 +0000, And wrote: 
Allan:
> I've tried to follow the discussions about logic (ro, import, et al.) and
> failed miserably

Me too, to some extent. To someone intimidated by the subject I'd
suggest any old "logic for dummies" sort of thing. And then James
McCawley's _Everything linguists always wanted to know about logic
but were ashamed to ask_. Our main gurus are McCawley & Quine --
John is a big Quine fan. (I confess that even tho I'm a big John
fan, I haven't yet got round to reading Quine. But I will.)

I'll throw in a pitch for Horn's "A Natural History of Negation" which deals with a lot of these issues in the context of negative sentences of various kinds, and which was critical to the Lojban negation design, wherein a lot of the import/export issues were first debated.

lojbab

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