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Irving Copi

Disciplines:
logic

Summary

American logician who wrote Introduction to Logic — the most widely used introductory logic textbook in the 20th century, in print for over 60 years.

Core Contribution

Introduction to Logic: a clear, comprehensive, and pedagogically effective introduction to formal and informal logic that shaped how generations of students learned to reason.

Notable Works & Achievements

Introduction to Logic

Symbolic Logic

Historical Influences

Bertrand Russell Rudolf Carnap

Intellectual Lineage

Analytic Logic

Contemporaries & Peers

W. V. O. Quine

Minds Influenced

Logic Education

Intellectual Posterity

Logic Pedagogy

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