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Power of Logic
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Basic Concepts
Section I. Validity and Deductive Soundness
Section II. Strength and Inductive Soundness
2. Argument Forms
Section I. Forms and Counterexamples
Section II. Some Forms With Names
3. Identifying Arguments
Section I. Arguments and Nonarguments
Section II. Putting an Argument Into Textbook Form
Section III. Argument Diagrams
Section IV. Enthymemes
4. Logic and Language
Section I. Logic, Meaning, and Emotive Force
Section II. Definitions
Section III. Using Definitions to Evaluate Arguments
5. Categorical Syllogisms
Section I. Categorical Statements
Section II. Venn Diagrams
Section III. Aristotelian Logic: Immediate Inferences
Section IV. Aristotelian Logic: Categorical Syllogisms
6. Informal Fallacies
Section I. Fallacies Involving Irrelevant Premises
Section II. Fallacies Involving Insufficient Evidence
Section III. Fallacies Involving Ambiguity and Unwarranted
Premises
7. Statement Logic: Truth Tables
Section I. Symbolizing English Arguments
Section II. Truth Tables
Section III. Using Truth Tables to Evaluate Arguments
Section IV. Abbreviated Truth Tables
Section V. Tautology, Contradiction, Contingency, and Logical Equivalence
8. Statement Logic: Proofs
Section I. Implicational Rules of Inference
Section II. Five Equivalence Rules
Section III. Five More Equivalence Rules
Section IV. Conditional Proof
Section V. Reductio Ad Absurdum
Section VI. Proving Theorems
9. Predicate Logic
Section I. Predicates and Quantifiers
Section II. Demonstrating Invalidity
Section III. Constructing Proofs
Section IV. Quantifier Negation, RAA, and CP
Section V. The Logic of Relations
Section VI. Identity
10. InductionS
ection I. Inductive and Deductive Logic: Contrasts and Clarifications
Section II. Arguments from Authority and Induction by Enumeration
Section III. Mills Methods and Scientific Reasoning
Section IV. Arguments From Analogy
Section V. Metaphors and Arguments from Analogy
11. Probability
Section I. Three Theories of Probability
Section II. Rules of Probability
Section III. Bayes' Theorem
12. Modal Logic
Section I. Modal Concepts
Section II. The Modal Symbols
Section III. Constructing Proofs
Section IV. Modal Distribution and Strict Implication
Section V. Systems S4 and S5
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ISBN:
9781559349550
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
09/18/1998
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
Language:
English
Pages:
566
Height:
1.03IN
Width:
6.56IN
Thickness:
1.03 in.
LCCN:
98013617
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
1998
UPC Code:
2801559349552
Author:
Charles S Layman
Author:
Charles S. Layman
Subject:
PHILOSOPHY / Logic
Subject:
Truth,Informal Fallacies,Categorical Syllogisms,Language,Basic Concepts,Preface,Power,Induction,Probability,Clarifications,Contrasts
Subject:
General Philosophy
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