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Aug 31, 2024
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PHI 110 - Introduction to Logic Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: Core Learn to recognize and construct good arguments. Study of deduction including categorical and truth functional arguments. Study of induction. Examination of informal fallacies. Competencies
- Explain introductory concepts of logic
- Define logic
- Define premise, conclusion and argument
- Define valid and invalid argument
- Define sound and unsound argument
- Explain introductory concepts and operations related to categorical arguments
- Identify the four kinds of categorical sentences
- Identify the quantity and quality of each kind of categorical sentence.
- Show with Venn Diagrams the information conveyed by each kind of categorical sentence
- Generate valid inferences involving contradictories, contraries, and subcontraries
- Generate valid inferences involving conversion, obversion and contraposition
- Judge the in/validity of syllogistic arguments through Venn Diagrams and the Method of Aristotelian Rules
- Rewrite categorical statements in standard form
- Define a standard form syllogism
- Identify the major term, minor term, middle term, and mood and figure of a syllogism
- Demonstrate the in/validity of syllogisms with Venn Diagrams
- Demonstrate the in/validity of syllogisms with the Aristotelian rules
- Rewrite nonstandard form syllogisms in standard form in order to be able to apply Venn Diagrams or the Method of Aristotelian Rules to ascertain in/validity
- Explain introductory concepts pertaining to truth tables
- Distinguish between atomic and compound statements
- Symbolize atomic and compound statements
- Define logical connectives with truth tables
- Appraise the in/validity of arguments using truth tables
- Demonstrate in/validity of arguments with full truth tables
- Determine the in/validity of arguments with abbreviated truth tables
- Show with truth tables whether different statements are logically equivalent
- Assess with truth tables whether compound sentences are tautologous, contradictory, or contingent
- Prove the validity of arguments using natural deduction techniques
- Demonstrate the validity of arguments using inference rules and logical equivalence rules
- Demonstrate the validity of arguments using Conditional Proof and Reductio Ad Absurdum Proof
- Explain introductory concepts relative to informal fallacies
- Define what a logical fallacy is
- Distinguish formal fallacies from informal fallacies
- Assess informal fallacies involving irrelevant premises
- Define Ad Hominem Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Ad Hominem Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Ad Hominem Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Straw man Fallacy
- Define appeal to Force Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Appeal to Force Fallacy
- Define Appeal to the People Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Appeal to the people Fallacy
- Define Appeal to Pity Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Appeal to Pity Fallac
- Define appeal to Ignorance Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Appeal to ignorance Fallacy
- Assess informal fallacies involving ambiguity
- Define Equivocation Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Equivocation Fallacy
- Define Amphiboly Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Amphiboly Fallacy
- Define composition Fallacy.
- Identify arguments that commit Composition Fallacy
- Define Division Fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit Division Fallacy
- Assess informal fallacies involving unjustified assumptions
- Define begging the question fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit begging the question
- Define false dilemma fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit false dilemma
- Define appeal to unreliable authority fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit appeal to unreliable authority
- Define false cause fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit false cause fallacy
- Define complex question fallacy
- Identify arguments that commit complex question fallacy
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