Notes for Elementary Symbolic Logic
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1. Introduction
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1.1. Formal deductive logic
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1.1.0. Overview
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1.1.1. Logic
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1.1.2. Inference
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1.1.3. Arguments
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1.1.4. Deductive
vs.
non-deductive inference
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1.1.5. Bounds on inference
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1.1.6. Entailment and exclusion
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1.1.7. Inconsistency and exhaustiveness
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1.1.8. Formal logic
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1.1.s. Summary
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1.1.x. Exercises
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1.1.xa. Exercise answers
1.2. What is said: propositions
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1.2.0. Overview
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1.2.1. Truth values and possible worlds
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1.2.2. Truth conditions and propositions
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1.2.3. Ordering by content
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1.2.4. Equivalence in content
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1.2.5. The extremes of content
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1.2.6. Logical space and the algebra of propositions
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1.2.7. Contrasting content
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1.2.8. Deductive relations in general
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1.2.s. Summary
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1.2.x. Exercises
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1.2.xa. Exercise answers
1.3. Beyond saying: pragmatics
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1.3.0. Overview
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1.3.1. A model of language
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1.3.2. Some complications
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1.3.3. Speech acts
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1.3.4. Implicature
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1.3.5. Indexicality
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1.3.6. Vagueness
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1.3.7. Presupposition
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1.3.s. Summary
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1.3.x. Exercises
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1.3.xa. Exercise answers
1.4. General principles of deductive reasoning
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1.4.0. Overview
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1.4.1. A closer look at entailment
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1.4.2. Separation
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1.4.3. Content and coverage
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1.4.4. Relative exhaustiveness
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1.4.5. A general framework
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1.4.6. Reduction to entailment
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1.4.7. Laws for entailment
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1.4.8. Duality
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1.4.s. Summary
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1.4.x. Exercises
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1.4.xa. Exercise answers
2. Conjunctions
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2.1.
And
: adding content
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2.1.0. Overview
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2.1.1. A connective
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2.1.2. A truth function
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2.1.3. Conjunction in English
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2.1.4. Limits on analysis
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2.1.5. Multiple conjunction
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2.1.6. Some sample analyses
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2.1.7. Logical forms
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2.1.8. Interpretations
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2.1.s. Summary
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2.1.x. Exercises
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2.1.xa. Exercise answers
2.2. Proofs: analyzing entailment
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2.2.0. Overview
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2.2.1. Proofs as trees
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2.2.2. Argument trees
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2.2.3. Derivations
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2.2.4. Rules for derivations
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2.2.5. An example
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2.2.6. Two perspectives on derivations
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2.2.7. More rules
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2.2.8. Resources
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2.2.s. Summary
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2.2.x. Exercises
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2.2.xa. Exercise answers
2.3. Failed proofs and counterexamples
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2.3.0. Overview
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2.3.1. When enough is enough
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2.3.2. Dead ends and counterexamples
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2.3.3. Validity through the generations
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2.3.4. Sound and safe rules
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2.3.5. Confirming counterexamples
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2.3.6. Reaching decisions
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2.3.7. Soundness and completeness
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2.3.8. Formal validity
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2.3.s. Summary
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2.3.x. Exercises
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2.3.xa. Exercise answers
2.4. Using lemmas
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2.4.0. Overview
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2.4.1. Premises, assumptions, and suppositions
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2.4.2. The dangers of lemmas
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2.4.3. Lemmas for
reductio
arguments
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2.4.4. Attachment rules
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2.4.s. Summary
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2.4.x. Exercises
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2.4.xa. Exercise answers
3. Negations
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3.1.
Not
: contradicting content
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3.1.0. Overview
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3.1.1. Connectives
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3.1.2. Contradictory propositions
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3.1.3. Negation in English
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3.1.4. Negated conjunctions and conjoined negations
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3.1.5. Some sample analyses
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3.1.s. Summary
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3.1.x. Exercises
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3.1.xa. Exercise answers
3.2.
Reductio
arguments: refuting suppositions
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3.2.0. Overview
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3.2.1. The duality of premises and alternatives
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3.2.2. Drawing negative conclusions
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3.2.3. Some examples
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3.2.s. Summary
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3.2.x. Exercises
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3.2.xa. Exercise answers
3.3. Negations as premises
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3.3.0. Overview
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3.3.1. Indirect proof
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3.3.2. Using lemmas to complete
reductio
s
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3.3.3. More examples
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3.3.s. Summary
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3.3.x. Exercises
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3.3.xa. Exercise answers
3.4. Counterexamples to
reductio
s
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3.4.0. Overview
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3.4.1. When
reductio
s fail
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3.4.2. Some examples of consistency
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3.4.s. Summary
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3.4.x. Exercises
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3.4.xa. Exercise answers
3.5. Being guided by the rules
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3.5.0. Overview
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3.5.1. Approaching derivations
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3.5.2. An example
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3.5.3. A procedure
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3.5.s. Summary
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3.5.x. Exercises
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3.5.xa. Exercise answers
4. Disjunctions
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4.1.
Or
: taking common content
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4.1.0. Overview
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4.1.1. Hedging
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4.1.2. Inclusive and exclusive disjunction
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4.1.3. Disjunction in English
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4.1.4. Further examples
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4.1.s. Summary
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4.1.x. Exercises
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4.1.xa. Exercise answers
4.2. Arguing from and for alternatives
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4.2.0. Overview
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4.2.1. Proofs by cases
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4.2.2. Proving disjunctions
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4.2.3. Further examples
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4.2.4. The duality of conjunction and disjunction
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4.2.s. Summary
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4.2.x. Exercises
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4.2.xa. Exercise answers
4.3. Detachment: eliminating alternatives
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4.3.0. Overview
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4.3.1. Detachment rules
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4.3.2. More attachment rules
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4.3.s. Summary
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4.3.x. Exercises
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4.3.xa. Exercise answers
5. Conditionals
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5.1.
If
: trimming content
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5.1.0. Overview
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5.1.1. Conditions
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5.1.2. The conditional as a truth-functional connective
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5.1.3. Doubts about truth-functionality
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5.1.4. Examples
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5.1.s. Summary
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5.1.x. Exercises
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5.1.xa. Exercise answers
5.2.
Only if
and
unless
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5.2.0. Overview
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5.2.1.
Only if
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5.2.2. Necessary and sufficient conditions
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5.2.3.
Unless
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5.2.4. Three forms compared
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5.2.s. Summary
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5.2.x. Exercises
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5.2.xa. Exercise answers
5.3. Conditional proofs: bottling inference
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5.3.0. Overview
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5.3.1. Conditionalization
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5.3.2. Detachment
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5.3.s. Summary
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5.3.x. Exercises
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5.3.xa. Exercise answers
5.4. Extreme measures
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5.4.0. Overview
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5.4.1. Last resorts
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5.4.2. Optional extras
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5.4.s. Summary
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5.4.x. Exercises
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5.4.xa. Exercise answers
6. Predications
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6.1. Naming and describing
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6.1.0. Overview
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6.1.1. A richer grammar
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6.1.2. Logical predicates
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6.1.3. Extensionality
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6.1.4. Identity
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6.1.5. Analyzing predications
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6.1.6. Individual terms
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6.1.7. Functors
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6.1.8. Examples and problems
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6.1.s. Summary
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6.1.x. Exercises
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6.1.xa. Exercise answers
6.2. Predicates and pronouns
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6.2.0. Overview
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6.2.1. Abstracts
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6.2.2. Bound variables
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6.2.3. Variables and pronouns
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6.2.4. Expanded and reduced forms
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6.2.s. Summary
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6.2.x. Exercises
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6.2.xa. Exercise answers
6.3. Arguments involving equations
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6.3.0. Overview
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6.3.1. Logical properties of identity
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6.3.2. A law for aliases
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6.3.3. Derivations for identity
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6.3.s. Summary
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6.3.x. Exercises
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6.3.xa. Exercise answers
6.4. Describing models
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6.4.0. Overview
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6.4.1. Extensions and ranges
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6.4.2. Building structures
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6.4.3. Structures as counterexamples
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6.4.s. Summary
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6.4.x. Exercises
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6.4.xa. Exercise answers
7. Generalizations
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7.1. Generalizations in English
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7.1.0. Overview
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7.1.1. Theories of quantifier phrases
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7.1.2. Pronouns and quantifier phrases
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7.1.3. Finding quantifier phrases
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7.1.4. Kinds of generalizations
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7.1.5. Bounds and exceptions
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7.1.s. Summary
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7.1.x. Exercises
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7.1.xa. Exercise answers
7.2. Generalizations and quantifiers
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7.2.0. Overview
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7.2.1. The universal quantifier
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7.2.2. Analyzing generalizations
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7.2.3. Compound restrictions
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7.2.s. Summary
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7.2.x. Exercises
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7.2.xa. Exercise answers
7.3. Quantifiers and connectives
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7.3.0. Overview
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7.3.1. Generalizations and counterexamples
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7.3.2. Generalizations as components
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7.3.3.
Any
and
every
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7.3.s. Summary
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7.3.x. Exercises
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7.3.xa. Exercise answers
7.4. Multiple generality
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7.4.0. Overview
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7.4.1. Multiple generality
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7.4.2. Judging the scope of quantifier phrases
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7.4.s. Summary
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7.4.x. Exercises
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7.4.xa. Exercise answers
7.5. General arguments
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7.5.0. Overview
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7.5.1. Conjunction and universal quantification
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7.5.2. Instantiation
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7.5.3. Generalization
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7.5.4. Adding instances
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7.5.5. General arguments in derivations
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7.5.6. Syllogisms
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7.5.s. Summary
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7.5.x. Exercises
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7.5.xa. Exercise answers
7.6. Insuring generality
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7.6.0. Overview
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7.6.1. How generality can fail
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7.6.2. Multiply general arguments
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7.6.s. Summary
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7.6.x. Exercises
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7.6.xa. Exercise answers
7.7. Soundness & completeness
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7.7.0. Overview
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7.7.1. Aspects of adequacy
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7.7.2. Soundness
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7.7.3. Thoroughness
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7.7.4. Effectuality
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7.7.s. Summary
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7.7.x. Exercises
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7.7.xa. Exercise answers
7.8. Finite & infinite structures
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7.8.0. Overview
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7.8.1. Finding finite structures
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7.8.2. The failure of decisiveness
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7.8.s. Summary
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7.8.x. Exercises
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7.8.xa. Exercise answers
8. Numerations
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8.1.
Some
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8.1.0. Overview
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8.1.1. Exemplification
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8.1.2. Obversion
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8.1.3. Conversion
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8.1.4. Existentials exemplified
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8.1.5. Existential commitment
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8.1.s. Summary
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8.1.x. Exercises
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8.1.xa. Exercise answers
8.2. Uniform generality
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8.2.0. Overview
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8.2.1. General and uniformly general exemplification
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8.2.2. Quantifier scope ambiguities
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8.2.3. Controlling ambiguity
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8.2.s. Summary
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8.2.x. Exercises
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8.2.xa. Exercise answers
8.3. Numerical quantification
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8.3.0. Overview
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8.3.1. Else
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8.3.2. Numerical quantifier phrases
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8.3.3. Exactly
n
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8.3.s. Summary
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8.3.x. Exercises
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8.3.xa. Exercise answers
8.4. Definite descriptions
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8.4.0. Overview
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8.4.1. The problem of definite descriptions
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8.4.2. Definite descriptions as quantifier phrases
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8.4.3. Definite descriptions as individual terms
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8.4.4. Examples: restrictive
vs.
non-restrictive relative clauses
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8.4.s. Summary
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8.4.x. Exercises
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8.4.xa. Exercise answers
8.5. Proofs by choice & proofs of existence
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8.5.0. Overview
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8.5.1. Proof by choice
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8.5.2. Constructive and non-constructive proof
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8.5.3. Derivations for existentials
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8.5.4. First-order logic
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8.5.s. Summary
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8.5.x. Exercises
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8.5.xa. Exercise answers
8.6. Arguments involving descriptive reference
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8.6.0. Overview
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8.6.1. The role of definite descriptions in entailment
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8.6.2. Derivations for the description operator
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8.6.3. Consequences for adequacy
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8.6.s. Summary
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8.6.x. Exercises
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8.6.xa. Exercise answers
Appendices
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A. Reference
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A.0. Overview
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A.1. Definitions and notation for basic concepts
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A.2. Logical forms
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A.3. Truth tables
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A.4. Derivation rules
B. Laws for relative exhaustiveness
Index and glossary
Glen Helman
12 Jul 2012