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The ability to reason is one of the marvels of human nature. In many situations it is not easy to think logically, but the benefits of doing so are a familiar fact of human experience. Since at least the time of Aristotle (384322 B.C.), many questions have been raised by inquisitive and reflective minds about the nature of reasoning, and about ways of improving our use of reason. From such questions and attempts to answer them has arisen the intellectual discipline known as logic.
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Andrews, P.B. (2002). Introduction. In: An Introduction to Mathematical Logic and Type Theory: To Truth Through Proof. Applied Logic Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9934-4_1
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