Review of Logic

Abstract

Reviews the book, Logic, Theoretical and Applied by D. Luther Evans and Walter S. Gamertsfelder (1937). The present text is primarily a restatement of the traditional logic as seen through the eyes of the authors, preceded by a section on The Nature and Value of Reflective Thought, the intention of which is to give formal principles a setting in the general field of knowledge, to suggest the relation of logic to language, the sciences, and philosophy; and also to relate it to the problem of truth. As a whole the book is as good as any of the traditional presentations, and in its mode of stating things will doubtless appeal more to certain teachers than other texts do. But students do not gain a fair notion of what logic is doing at the present day from a mere restatement of the traditional discussions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)