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Gwynne Taraska
PHIL 115
Seattle Campus
Introduction to logic emphasizing concepts and methods useful for practical analysis of arguments in everyday contexts; meaning, syllogisms, logical diagrams, inductive and statistical inference, informal fallacies, argument structure, perhaps some beginning symbolic logic. Offered: AWSpS.
Class description
This course is an introduction to topics in logic. We will study deductive and inductive reasoning, criteria of adequacy for arguments, informal fallacies, probability theory, syllogistic logic, propositional logic, predicate logic, and paradoxes.
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