{"id":60,"date":"2005-05-28T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/05\/28\/being-logical\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T18:32:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T01:32:35","slug":"being-logical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/05\/28\/being-logical\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Logical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-60\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0812971159\/qid=1117401475\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"NewWindow\">Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>D. Q. McInerny<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>160 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Random House Trade Paperbacks (May 10, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0812971159<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m again in Amsterdam.  This time I wanted to bring a couple of small books in case I took a train someplace.  Well, I did (you can find my travelogue entry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Travel\/DemBoschAndAmsMay2005\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>), and I took this book with me.<\/p>\n<p>Its a good book.  Its good to be reminded occasionally how to analyze arguments and how to make successful arguments.  The book provides a simple introduction to logic without a lot of diagrams or special symbiology (some of the standard symbols are introduced). The most valuable part of the book is probably the discussion on how to present a successful argument to a given audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-60\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 60);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-60\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-60\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking Author: D. Q. McInerny Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (May 10, 2005) ISBN: 0812971159 I&#8217;m again in Amsterdam. This time I wanted to bring a couple of small books in case I took a train someplace. Well, I did (you can find my travelogue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}