Logic Richard Lee
Philosophy 2203 011Summer 2002

Schedule of Readings

Tentative

All readings are from Patrick J. Hurley A Concise Introduction to Logic, seventh edition.
 
Basic Concepts of Logic
5/201.1 Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions (skip "Note on the History of Logic")
5/211.2 Recognizing Arguments
5/221.3 Deduction and Induction
1.4 Validity, Truth, Soundness, Strength, Cogency
5/231.5 Argument Forms: Proving Invalidity
 
5/24First Examination
 
Informal Fallacies
5/283.1 Fallacies in General
3.2 Fallacies of Relevance
5/293.3 Fallacies of Weak Induction
5/303.4 Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Grammatical Analogy
3.5 Fallacies in Ordinary Language
 
5/31Second Examination
 
Propositional Logic
6/36.1 Symbols and Translation
6/46.6 Argument Forms and Fallacies
6/56.2 Truth Functions
6/66.3 Truth Tables for Propositions
6.4 Truth Tables for Arguments
 
6/7Third Examination
 
Elementary Natural Deduction
6/107.1 Rules of Implication I
6/117.2 Rules of Implication II
6/127.3 Rules of Replacement I
6/137.4 Rules of Replacement II
 
6/14Fourth Examination
 
More Proof Techniques and on to Predicate Logic
6/157.5 Conditional Proof
6/187.6 Indirect Proof
6/198.1 Symbols and Translation
6/208.5 Proving Invalidity
 
6/21Fifth Examination
 
Predicate Logic with Identity
6/248.2 Using the Rules of Inference
8.3 Change of Quantifier Rules
6/258.4 Conditional and Indirect Proof
6/268.6 Relational Predicates and Overlapping Quantifiers
6/278.7 Identity
 
6/28Sixth Examination


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