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Copi is probably best known as the author of Introduction to Logic and Informal Logic, both widely used, with the former currently in its 13th edition.

Books by Copi

• 1969 (1953). Introduction to Logic. Macmillan.
• 1954. Symbolic Logic. Macmillan.
• 1965 (edited with Paul Hente). Language, Thought and Culture. The University of Michigan Press.
• 1966 (edited with Robert Beard). Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
• 1967 (edited with James Gould). Contemporary Readings in Logical Theory. Macmillan.
• 1971. The theory of logical types. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• 1986 (with Keith Burgess-Jackson). Informal Logic. Macmillan.

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