logic.umwblogs.orgIntroduction to Logic

Skip to content TA example MLK Letter Welcome to my Intro to Logic blog. This is your text for the course; you’ll be accessing this blog everyday this semester. I’m teaching two sections of the course in Spring 2020, one in the classroom and one on-line. There is also a Canvas site for each section, where you’ll be posting some of your work and taking quizzes. This is the syllabus for the face-to-face section: PHIL 151.01- CVasey-202001 This is the syllabus for the on-line section: PHIL 151.02- CVasey-202001 Both sections are using this blog as the text, but the assignments vary slightly for an obvious reason. If you are signed up for the on-line section but would like to attend the face-to-face section, I expect there will be enough seats in Trinkle 140 (Tues and Thurs 3:30-4:45) to accommodate you. It’s important to appreciate that an on-line class requires a great deal more maturity and discipline on your part; you are pretty much working on your own. We may never see each other at all. That makes it easy to fall behind and to fail to get clarification of points that you don’t quite understand at first glance. You’ll have to develop a strategy for succeeding, for communicating with me (asking questions by email or chat room), for managing your time effectively. It is harder to be successful in an on-line class than in a face-to-face class, but for some, the flexibility makes it essential. The most important thing for succeeding is being a careful and attentive reader. And learn to read things twice (if not more!) So, the first thing to do is: read the syllabus. Carefully. Twice. Look at the Canvas site (the list of Assignments, or the Gradebook) to see what the work involved will be, the pace and frequency of assignments. Here’s a preview: every week you’ll have two online quizzes (multiple choice); every other week you’ll have a more substantial quiz; you’ll write three very short papers during the semester on assigned topics, and submit five analyses of short texts. There are also three exams. There are exercises for practice at the distinctions you’ll need to learn and the techniques of representation and analysis. It is essential to do the exercises in order to actually learn (rather than just understand) the material. Search for: 1. Introduction 2. Basic Concepts 2. Exercises (with answers) 2.1 More basics: Use, Mention, and Meaning 2.1.1 Petri on “whom.” 2.1.2 Sense and Reference 2.2 Other Indicator Words 2.2 Exercises (with answers) 3. Arguments and Non-arguments 3.1 The price of gas (with answers) 3.1.1 Climate Change, the ACA, and Logic 3.2 Examples from Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century 3.3 Fifteen exercises (with answers) 3.4 Washington Post examples (with answers) 3.5 Twenty-seven exercises (with answers) 4. Induction and Deduction 4. Argument Pattern Recognition Exercises (with answers) 4. Exercises on identification and Evaluation 5. Validity Solutions to Counter-example exercises 5.1 A Lesson on Conditionals 6. Informal Fallacies in Reasoning 6. Fallacy Identification Exercises 6. Solutions to Fallacy Identification Exercises 7. Categorical Logic 7. Exercises on Standard Form and Distribution 7. More Standard Form Practice (with answers) 7.1 Diagramming Propositions 7.2 Relations Amongst Propositions: The Square of Oppositions 7.2.1 Finishing the Square and Immediate Inferences 7.3 Categorical Logic: Syllogisms 7.3.1 Determining validity of Categorical Syllogisms 7.3.1 solutions 7.3.1.1 Learning Categorical Syllogisms 7.3.1.2 Exercises on Categorical Syllogisms 7.3.2 Review Standard Form exercises 8. Propositional Logic 8. Translation practice in propositional logic (with answers) 8.1 Calculating truth-values of statements 8.1.2 Exercises: Translation and Calculation for Statements (with answers) 8.1.3 Syntax in propositional logic — exercises 8.2 Classifying and Comparing Statements 8.2.1 Solutions to Truth Tables for statements 8.2.2 Truth table exercises 8.2.3 Exercise on comparing statement forms 8.3 Truth Tables for Argument Analysis 8.3.1 Exercises: Arguments for Truth Table Analysis 9. Natural Deduction 9.1 Pattern Recognition Exercises 9.1.1 Solutions to Pattern Recognition exercise 9.1.2 Learning to draw inferences 9.2 Fill in the Blank Exercises 9.2.1 Solutions to Fill in the Blank Exercises 9.3 Exercises: Two sets 9.4 Rules of Equivalence 9.4.1 Listing of the rules of inference and equivalence 9.4.1.2 Practicing equivalences 9.4.1.2.1 “Time Machine” exercise 9.4.2 Another ten proofs to work 9.4.2.1 Solutions to those ten proofs 9.4.3 Yet more proof exercises 9.5 Conditional and Indirect Proof 9.5.1 Solutions to Conditional Proof exercises 9.5.1.1 Exercises on Conditional and Indirect Proof 9.5.2 Another way to appreciate CP 10. Predicate Logic and exercises 10.1 Solutions to predicate translation exercises 10.2 Proofs in Predicate Logic Solutions to proofs in predicate logic 10.3 Change of Quantifier and exercises Sample Final Exam Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Proudly powered by WordPress....