1. Be able to perform a logical analysis on selected bits of prose and re-write them in logical form.
2. Understand the implications of the: possible worlds hypothesis, hidden premises, and enthymemes for logic validity of conclusions.
3. Review the list of informal fallacies. Be able to explain some of them in your own words, if you cannot remember their names
4. Be able to assess logical validity for categorical arguments of the A, E, I, and O type by using Venn diagrams. Derive meaning of the following syllogisms from their names: Barbara, Celarent, Bocardo, Darii.
5. Be able to assess logical validity for sentences using the logical skeletons of words such as: not, and, or (inclusive and exclusive), if - then, and if-and-only-if by using truth tables. Know both types of conventional symbols used.
6. Does logical validity or invalidity prove truth? If not, what does it prove?
7. Briefly know the contributions of Frege and Russell to the history of logic.
8. What does the Wason Selection Task say about our abilities to think logically? What does it suggest?
9. How does fuzzy logic work? What does it attempt to do? Give one or two examples of how fuzzy logic applications are used today. Know the answers to the questions on the website powerpoint assignment.
10. What are some criticisms of logic? Be familiar with paradoxes and weaknesses of the word, 'is'.
11. Patrick Shawe said, 'When ...disagreements occur...where competing claims cannot be easily and obviously tested, attention is bound to turn to the route by which a controversial conclusion was reached. We are forced to become self-conscious about the reasoning process. How far reasoning will take us remains to be seen, but so far as it leads we must be sure it is sound.' What are the implications of this claim?
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