{"id":2144,"date":"2010-09-09T12:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T11:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2010-09-09T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T11:12:41","slug":"kennethamy-on-boring-books-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2010\/09\/kennethamy-on-boring-books-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennethamy on boring books and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>piratefish<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nI&#8217;m reading Irving Copi&#8217;s Introduction to Logic, very boring and not that well written, any suggestions? Just a college level book that gives a comprehensive intro to the topic. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>kennethamy<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n&#8220;Boring&#8221; is not a particularly apt criticism of a text. There are jazzier logic books out there, with bunches of cartoon and jokes (and maybe even recipes for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches) but Copi is a good, solid elementary logic text which has been through more reprints than I can count, and has set the standard for logic texts in English. If you seriously want to learn, you really have to give up the entertainment addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Notice how applicable this is to anything. Simply substitute logic for any serious discipline such as physics, chemistry and sociology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeratio.org\/showthread.php?p=6510729\">Source.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>piratefish I&#8217;m reading Irving Copi&#8217;s Introduction to Logic, very boring and not that well written, any suggestions? Just a college level book that gives a comprehensive intro to the topic. Thanks. kennethamy &#8220;Boring&#8221; is not a particularly apt criticism of a text. There are jazzier logic books out there, with bunches of cartoon and jokes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,8],"tags":[173,1601,1602,701],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logic-philosophy","category-dialogues","category-philosophy","tag-book","tag-boring","tag-learning","tag-logic","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}