Need a Logic book recommendation.

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A user is seeking resources to prepare for a graduate logic course after skipping the undergraduate introductory class. The undergraduate course covers basic propositional and predicate logic, including semantics, deductive systems, and key concepts like completeness and the decision problem. The graduate course focuses on sentential logic, first-order languages, model theory, and applications such as non-standard analysis. A recommendation is made for two books: "Introduction to Logic" by Copi and Cohen for foundational knowledge, and "Symbolic Logic" by Copi for more advanced topics relevant to the graduate course. The second book is noted to have unconventional notation and is more challenging, with uncertainty about its coverage of model theory.
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Hey so I am doing a grad course on logic and skipping the undergrad introductory course. My friends have said that I will be fine but I want to get a head start and read some of what I missed in the undergrad class. here is the description for it.

Elementary development of propositional and predicate logic, including semantics and deductive systems and with a discussion of completeness, incompleteness and the decision problem.

the grad class has this description

Sentential logic, first-order languages, models and formal deductions. Basic model theory including completeness and compactness theorems, other methods of constructing models, and applications such as non-standard analysis.

So I want a book that is introductory enough to cover the undergrad course and give me a good basis for the grad course. I have never done any logic studies so this is all brand new to me.

thanks,
RK
 
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I'd suggest you get a set of two books:

Introduction to Logic (Copi, Cohen)
Symbolic Logic (Copi)

They should provide a sufficiently good introduction, and the second a nice way to deal with a lot of the material in the grad course. Note, though, that the second book uses slightly unconventional notation, and is significantly more difficult than the first. I don't remember whether or not it covers model theory, either.

(I'm also not sure for which type of course you're asking this, so take this as a general recommendation, for what it's worth.)
 
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