title: Logic (Prentice-hall Foundations of Philosophy Series)
author:  Wesley C. Salmon 
description: This book offers a gentle introduction to the scope, nature and function of logic. The third edition offers substantially expanded treatment of causal reasoning.
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  Naming and Reference
  
   **The Problems of Philosophy**
  
   **Their Past and Present**
  
  General editor: Ted Honderich
  
  _Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic_ _University College
  London_
  
  Other books in the series:
  
  PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
  
  James O.Grunebaum
  
  RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND THE WILL
  
  Louis P.Pojman
  
  MIND-BODY IDENTITY THEORIES*
  
  Cynthia Macdonald
  
  PRACTICAL REASONING*
  
  Robert Audi
  
  PERSONAL IDENTITY*
  
  Harold W.Noonan
  
  IF P, THEN Q: Conditionals and the Foundations of Reasoning David H.Stanford
  
  THE INFINITE*
  
  A.W.Moore
  
  THE WEAKNESS OF THE WILL
  
  Justin Gosling
  
  THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE*
  
  J.M.Moravcsik
  
  HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
  
  Alastair Hannay
  
  EXPLAINING EXPLANATION
  
  David-Hillel Ruben
  
  SCEPTICISM
  
  Christopher Hookway
  
  THE NATURE OF ART
  
  A.L.Cothey
  
  RATIONALITY*
  
  Harold I.Brown
  
  THE RATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICS*
  
  T.L.S.Sprigge
  
  MORAL KNOWLEDGE*
  
  Alan Goldman
  
  THE IMPLICATIONS OF DETERMINISM
  
  Roy Weatherford
  
  POLITICAL FREEDOM
  
  George G.Brenkert
  
  _*Now a