Study Guide for Concise Introduction to Logic

, by Hurley, Patrick J.

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ISBN: 9780534505363 | 0534505368
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/1996

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CHAPTER 1 BASIC CONCEPTS

(16)

1.1 Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions

(2)

1.2 Recognizing Arguments

(3)

1.3 Deduction and Induction

(2)

1.4 Validity, Truth, Soundness, Strength, Cogency

(2)

1.5 Argument Forms: Proving Invalidity

(4)

1.6 Extended Arguments

(3)

CHAPTER 2 LANGUAGE: MEANING AND DEFINITION

(8)

2.1 Cognitive Meaning and Emotive Meaning

(1)

2.2 The Intension and Extension of Terms

(2)

2.3 Definitions and Their Purposes

(1)

2.4 Definitional Techniques

(2)

2.5 Criteria for Lexical Definitions

(3)

CHAPTER 3 INFORMAL FALLACIES

(14)

3.1 Fallacies in General

(1)

3.2 Fallacies of Relevance

(3)

3.3 Fallacies of Weak Induction

(3)

3.4 Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Grammatical Analogy

(4)

3.5 Fallacies in Ordinary Language

(3)

CHAPTER 4 CATEGORICAL PROPOSITIONS

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4.1 The Components of Categorical Propositions

(1)

4.2 Quality, Quantity, and Distribution

(1)

4.3 Venn Diagrams and the Modern Square of Opposition

(3)

4.4 Conversion, Obversion, and Contraposition

(3)

4.5 The Traditional Square of Opposition

(3)

4.6 Venn Diagrams and the Traditional Standpoint

(3)

4.7 Translating Ordinary Language Statements into Categorical Form

(4)

CHAPTER 5 CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS

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5.1 Standard Mood, Form, and Figure

(4)

5.2 Venn Diagrams

(2)

5.3 Rules and Fallacies

(3)

5.4 Reducing the Number of Terms

(1)

5.5 Ordinary Language Arguments

(2)

5.6 Enthymemes

(1)

5.7 Sorites

(4)

CHAPTER 6 PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC

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6.1 Symbols and Translation

(2)

6.2 Truth Functions

(2)

6.3 Truth Tables for Propositions

(2)

6.4 Truth Tables for Arguments

(2)

6.5 Indirect Truth Tables

(1)

6.6 Argument Forms and Fallacies

(3)

CHAPTER 7 NATURAL DEDUCTION IN PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC

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7.1 Rules of Implication I

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7.2 Rules of Implication II

(3)

7.3 Rules of Replacement I

(2)

7.4 Rules of Replacement II

(2)

7.5 Conditional Proof

(2)

7.6 Indirect Proof

(2)

7.7 Proving Logical Truths

(3)

CHAPTER 8 PREDICATE LOGIC

101

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8.1 Symbols and Translation

101

(2)

8.2 Using the Rules of Inference

103

(3)

8.3 Change of Quantifier Rules

106

(1)

8.4 Conditional and Indirect Proof

107

(2)

8.5 Proving Invalidity

109

(2)

8.6 Relational Predicates and Overlapping Quantifiers

111

(4)

8.7 Indentity

115

(4)

CHAPTER 9 INDUCTION

119

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9.1 Analogy and Legal and Moral Reasoning

119

(2)

9.2 Causality and Mill's Methods

121

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9.3 Probability

122

(3)

9.4 Statistical Reasoning

125

(2)

9.5 Hypothetical Reasoning

127

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ANSWERS TO ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

129

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