Monday- Jan. 23
Introduction

Reading for next week: Logic: An Introduction. Chapter 1 (pdf)

Monday- Jan. 30
Logic: An Introduction Chapters 2 and 3 (file updated 1-30-30)

Today's Smart Board Notes (pdf)

Monday- Feb. 6
Homework  due today: Exercises 2.3.1 (title = Exercises 2.3.1)

Validity and Invalidity, arguments by Analogy and Induction

Reading for tonight:
Arguments - Valid and Invalid - (nice summary of much of Chapter 3) (pdf)
Logic Work-Sheet (pdf)
Validity and Soundness (html)
Inductive Reasoning
Arguments by Analogy 1

Smart Board Notes from tonight

Monday- Feb. 13
Homework due today:
1. Click here for Homework 1 - (Answers available here )
2. Complete the exercises at the bottom of Logic Work-Sheet (pdf) - (we will go over answers in class)

Smartboard notes for tonight

Monday- Feb. 20
Homework due tonight:
1. Arguments by Analogy
Some selected possible answers/analysis for some of the questions given in Arguments by Analogy (pdf)

Logical Fallacies
Some common fallacies have more than one name; here is a brief list of some of the more important ones:
Begging the Question (Petitio principii, circular reasoning), Ad ignorantium (from ignorance, inability to be falsified), Weak induction (hasty generalization, unrepresentative sample, selective attention, anecdotal evidence), Post Hoc ergo propter hoc (false cause),

General List of Fallacies (you should be familiar with the ones we discuss in class, and those with an * by their name)

Straw man arguments Ad-hominem fallacies Begging the question Inappropriate appeal to authority Hasty Generalizations Post Hoc (ergo propter hoc) Affirming the Consequent Denying the Antecedent Inconsistency *False Analogy *ambiguity/amphiboly *complex question Click here for a quote from the Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer on the Ad Populum Argument! Click here for a very interesting pdf on the False dilemma

*Straw-Man Arguments *Ad ignorantium *Ad-hominem *Begging The Question *Appeal to unqualified authority *Hasty Generalization *Post hoc *Affirming the Consequent *Denying the antecedent Inconsistency *False Dichotomy *Black-White fallacy *False Cause *Appeal to the People Anecdotal evidence Anthropomorphism Unrepresentative Sample Guilt by Association Loaded Language *Poisoning the Well Quoting out of context Tu quoque Selective Attention Scare Tactic

Homework for Monday- Feb. 27: (Title: Fallacy Summaries and Examples)
Pick 5 logical fallacies  from the above list (chose from those with an * ), and summarize in your own words the defining characteristics of the fallacy, and provide an example of the fallacy. This homework will be graded!

Smart Board notes for today

Monday- Feb. 27
Homework for tonight: (Title: Fallacy Summaries and Examples)
Pick 5 logical fallacies  from the above list (chose from those with an * ), and summarize in your own words the defining characteristics of the fallacy, and provide an example of the fallacy.
This homework will be graded!

More on Fallacies and causality

Come prepared to join fellow classmates in a "Name that Fallacy" game!


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