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An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic is an introductory textbook written by philosopher and logician Graham Priest on non-classical logics.

Two editions

The first edition is from 2001 and is titled just An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic, while the second edition, from 2008, is titled An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is (being a greatly improved and expanded version of the first edition). Both are published by Cambridge University Press.

Topics

1st edition

It covers many different propositional logics, including classical logic.

2nd edition

The subtitle From If to Is was added because the 2nd edition also deals with predicate calculi. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 covers the first edition content with improvements, and Part 2 is the totally new content of the book. The 2nd edition covers all topics from the first, and many more topics. The table of contents include: modal logic, intuitionist logic, fuzzy logics, and more.

Audience and reception

The prerequisites for understanding the book are, for the most part, undergraduate courses on classical symbolic logic.

According to J. Mackenzie, the first edition of the book "deserves to become the standard textbook in its field", which he reiterated for the second edition.

References

1. Hájek, Petr (2008). "Graham Priest. An introduction to non-classical logic: From If to Is. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2008, xxxii + 613 pp". Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 14 (4): 544–545. doi:10.1017/S1079898600001505. ISSN 1079-8986.
2. Hájek, Petr (2006). "Review of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 12 (2): 294–295. ISSN 1079-8986.
3. Shapiro, Stewart (2003). "Review of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic". The Review of Metaphysics. 56 (3): 670–672. ISSN 0034-6632.
4. Yaqub, Aladdin M. (2010). "An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is ". Teaching Philosophy. 33 (4): 432–436. doi:10.5840/teachphil201033453. ISSN 0145-5788.
5. Hájek, Petr (2008). "Review of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 14 (4): 544–545. ISSN 1079-8986.
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Further reading

• Roy, Tony (2006-03-20). "Natural Derivations for Priest, An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic". The Australasian Journal of Logic. 4. doi:10.26686/ajl.v4i0.1779. ISSN 1448-5052. Retrieved 2025-01-06.

External links

• An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=rMXVbmAw3YwC (with limited preview).
• Errata: https://www.cambridge.org/files/5214/5570/7670/Corrections_12.pdf

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