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Time Schedule:

• Spring Quarter 2013
• Summer Quarter 2013
• Autumn Quarter 2013

Lynn Hankinson Nelson
PHIL 120
Seattle Campus

Introduction to Logic

Elementary symbolic logic. The development, application, and theoretical properties of an artificial symbolic language designed to provide a clear representation of the logical structure of deductive arguments.

Class description

Elementary symbolic logic. The development, application, and theoretical properties of an artificial symbolic language designed to provide a clear representation of the logical structure of deductive arguments. PHIL 120 introduces students to formal (symbolic) logic, in which the logical notions of arguments, validity, consistency, logical truths and logical falsehoods are studied and methods for establishing them are learned. Course material includes the study of these concepts as they apply to Sentential Logic, and Predicate Logic including quantification. TEXT: "The Logic Book", Bergmann, Moor, and Nelson.

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