propositional

8/29/06

Tutorial 2 Example: How Experts Symbolize

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8/2/08

Tutorial 1 Exercise 2

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7/31/08

The very first lesson that we have a right to demand that logic shall teach us is, how to make our ideas clear; and a most important one it is, depreciated only by minds who stand in need of it. To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought. [CS Peirce, How to make our ideas clear]

11/26/11 10 Software

Skills to be acquired in this tutorial:

To become familiar with the notions of argument, valid, invalid, premise, and conclusion. To learn how to symbolize atomic sentences.

Reading

A. Hausman, H.Kahane, P.Tidman, [2007] Logic and Philosophy Chapters 1, 2.1

Tutorial:

The main role of logic is to assess arguments-- to say whether an individual argument is valid or whether it is invalid. In logic, arguments are taken to consist of two components--premises, and a conclusion.

For example,

Consistent

Invalid

7/3/06

1/24/06

eg Lander or Suber

The problem or issue here lies with the truth table for the conditional (or material implication)→

8/16/06 10Software

Skills to be acquired in this tutorial:

To learn how compound propositions are true or false depending on the truth or falsity of their component propositions.