ABSTRACT
Strictly speaking, our approach to logic is “intuitive” or “nave”. Where- as in ordinary conversation these emotion-charged words may be used to downgrade the value of that which is being described, our use of these words is more technical. What is meant is that we shall prescribe in this chapter certain rules of logic which are to be followed in the rest of the book. They will be presented to you in such a way that their validity should be intuitively appealing and self-evident. We cannot prove these rules. The rules of logic are the point where our learning begins. A more advanced course in logic will explore other logical methods. The ones that we present here are universally accepted in mathematics and in most of science.
