Aug | 24 | 1.1. |
Formal deductive logic
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27 | 1.2. |
What is said: propositions
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29 | 1.3. |
Beyond saying: pragmatics
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31 | 1.4. |
General principles of deductive reasoning
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Sep | 3 | 2.1. |
And: adding content
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5 | 2.2. |
Proofs: analyzing entailment
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7 | 2.3. |
Failed proofs and counterexamples
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10 | 2.4. |
Using lemmas
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12 | test 1 |
(chs. 1-2)
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14 | 3.1. |
Not: contradicting content
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17 | 3.2. |
Reductio arguments: refuting suppositions
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19 | 3.3. |
Negations as premises (new rules in ch. 3)
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21 | 3.4. |
Counterexamples to reductios
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24 | 3.5. |
Being guided by the rules (workshop handout)
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26 | 4.1. |
Or: taking common content
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28 | 4.2. |
Arguing from and for alternatives
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Oct | 1 | 4.3. |
Detachment: eliminating alternatives
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3 | test 2 |
(chs. 3-4)
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5 | 5.1. |
If: trimming content
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8 | 5.2. |
Only if and unless
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10 | 5.3. |
Conditional proofs: bottling inference
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Extreme measures
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17 | 6.1. |
Naming and describing
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19 | 6.2. |
Predicates and pronouns
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22 | 6.3. |
Arguments involving equations
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24 | 6.4. |
Describing models
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26 | test 3 |
(chs. 5-6)
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29 | 7.1. |
Generalizations in English
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31 | 7.2. |
Generalizations and quantifiers
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Nov | 2 | 7.3. |
Quantifiers and connectives
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5 | 7.4. |
Multiple generality
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7 | 7.5. |
General arguments
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9 | 7.6. |
Insuring generality
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12 | 7.7. |
Soundness & completeness
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14 | 7.8. |
Finite & infinite structures
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16 | test 4 |
(ch. 7)
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26 | 8.1. |
Some
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28 | 8.2. |
Uniform generality
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30 | 8.3. |
Numerical quantification
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Dec | 3 | 8.4. |
Definite descriptions
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5 | 8.5. |
Proofs by choice & proofs of existence
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7 | 8.6. |
Arguments involving descriptive reference
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9 am | 11 | test 5 |
(ch. 8 & retrospect)
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