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Lecture Notes

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General Course Information

Syllabus

Assignments & Examinations

• Exercises
  • Sets 1-2 Predicables & Categories
  • Sets 3-4 Definition; Classification & Division
  • Sets 5-7 Proposition Types; Immediate Inference; Square of Opposition
  • Sets 8-10 Categorical Syllogisms
    
• Readings
  • Lewis Carroll, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"
    Aristotle, selection from the Topics
  • Plato, Euthyphro
  • Lewis Carroll, "Humpty Dumpty" from Through the Looking Glass
  • Aristotle, selection from the Categories
  • John Sacrobosco, "Argument for the Sphericity of the Earth" from Tractatus on the Sphere
• Examinations

Help

• Logicola (a computer program that generates more logic problems)
• Department Tutoring Sessions
• Devotions to St. Jude

Lecture Notes

Lecture notes are PDF files.

• Lecture #1: What is Logic?
• Lecture #2: Validity (revised)
• Lecture #3: Stoic Logic 1 (revised)
• Lecture #4: Stoic Logic 2
• Lecture #5: Aristotelian Logic: Terms
• Lecture #6: Aristotelian Logic: Definition
• Lecture #7: Aristotelian Logic: Division
• Lecture #8: Aristotelian Logic: Propositions
• Lecture #9: Aristotelian Logic: Square of Opposition
• Lecture #10: Aristotelian Logic: Conversion
• Lecture #11: Aristotelian Logic: Categorical Syllogisms: Introduction & First Figure
• Lecture #12: Aristotelian Logic: Categorical Syllogisms: Second & Third Figure
• Lecture #13: Aristotelian Logic: Categorical Syllogisms: Invalidity
• Lecture #14: Probable Reasoning
• Lecture #15: Disputation
• Lecture #16: Quantified Logic: Introduction
• Lecture #17: Quantified Logic: Translation
  

Created: 17 August 2009
Last Modified: 9 November 2009