Arguments in Action

Schaum's Outline of Logic

Schaum's Outline of Logic,
by John Nolt, et al

This is particularly useful for its chapter on argument diagrams with clear explanations and lots of useful worked examples. It is worth noting that its method of bracketing and numbering the statements is not followed by writing a key with standalone statements. Students on the Higher course should be familiar with this additional step. Elsewhere, the book equates deductive arguments with valid arguments. This is not the definition used by the Higher course which allows the formal fallacies to be deductive arguments even though they are not valid. The book also uses a different method of argument evaluation.

Reviewed by CP, August 2018