by Shantila Hugginger

©Marvin Belzer 2009

mbelzer@bgsu.edu

Written for PHIL 103

Introduction to Logic (Spring 2009)

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 #9 Some fallacies; the lottery ticket

Inside Logic #10 Interpretation

Inside Logic #10+ More exercises: ping-pong

Inside Logic #11 Logical truths

Inside Logic #11+ Another fallacy: Negation distribution

Inside Logic #12 Biconditionals

Inside Logic #12+ Logical equivalence

Inside Logic #13 Inference (thinking) and Belief change

Inside Logic #14 Disjunctions

Inside Logic #15 Disjunctive syllogism

Inside Logic #16 Reductio ad absurdum

Inside Logic #17 Arguments: personal identity, for example

Inside Logic #18 Consistency

Inside Logic #19 Neither .. nor

Inside Logic #20 Excluded Middle

Inside Logic #21 Completeness

Inside Logic #22 Fallacies

Inside Logic #23 Answers to some exercises

Inside Logic #23+ Answers to more exercises

Inside Logic #24 "All" (Universal sentences)

Inside Logic #25 More on Inference and Belief change

Inside Logic #26 "Some" (Existential sentences)

Inside Logic #27 Reasoning with arbitrary objects to Universal conclusions

Inside Logic #28 More fallacies

Inside Logic #29 Reasoning with arbitrary objects from Existential premises

Inside Logic #30 Identity

Inside Logic #31 More uses of identity (extra credit)

Inside Logic #32 Conclusion

Inside Logic #33 Answers to selected exercises

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