by Shantila Hugginger

©Marvin Belzer 2007

mbelzer@bgsu.edu

Written for PHIL 103

Introduction to Logic (Spring 2007)

Bowling Green St. University

Syllabus

Inside Logic #1 Logic, Airport situation, Joe

Inside Logic #2 Not, And, Or, If

Inside Logic #3 Conditionals

Inside Logic #4 Proofs

Inside Logic #5 Negation

Inside Logic #5+ Sequents

Inside Logic #6 Modus Tollens; Britney on Larry King

Inside Logic #6+ Validity and Soundness

Inside Logic #7 Conjunction; Joes shows up

Inside Logic #8 Conditional proof

Inside Logic #8+ More exercises: ping-pong

Inside Logic #9 Some fallacies; the lottery ticket

Inside Logic #10 Interpretation

Inside Logic #11 Logical truths

Inside Logic #12 Biconditionals and logical equivalence

Inside Logic #13 Disjunctions

Inside Logic #14 Disjunctive syllogism

Inside Logic #15 Reductio ad absurdum

Inside Logic #16 Arguments; Mulder/Scully on personal identity

Inside Logic #17 Consistency; the Law of Non-contradiction

Inside Logic #18 "Neither... nor"

Inside Logic #19 The Law of Excluded Middle

Inside Logic #20 Completeness

Inside Logic #21 Answers to some Practice exercises

Inside Logic #21+ More answers to exercises

Inside Logic #22 All

Inside Logic #23 Inferences (Thinking) and Belief Change

Inside Logic #24 Some

Inside Logic #25 Fallacies

Inside Logic #26 Identity

Inside Logic #27 More on identity (extra credit)

Inside Logic #28 More Fallacies

Inside Logic #29 Answers to exercises chs 25-28