Logic, as this course will treat it, is the art of ordering discourse toward truth. It presupposes significant speech: terms that mean, statements that can be true or false, questions and commands that are not statements. You cannot follow what has not yet been said as a saying.
That is why this walk-through still sends most readers to grammar first. The rare case for touching logic earlier is not that puzzles are more fun. It is that a student cannot yet tell a statement from a question or a command, and so cannot even enter the second art. A later page will name that case. It is not the default.
If your hunger was for inference, keep it. Nothing in the foundation pages will ask you to become less strict. They will ask you to become strict about the speech in which strictness has to live. Ars Syllogistica will give that hunger work, after the words are yours to use.
First the course has to say why words are not a detour. The next pages begin from ordinary experiences of being misunderstood, of teaching a name, of arguing, of reading a law. The art of inference belongs after that, not instead of it.
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