Arguments are sets of statements called premises followed by a conclusion. Arguments are used as a means of rationalizing decision making. It is incumbent upon the populace to evaluate arguments in ...

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course ...

“THROUGHOUT this book ‘formal’ logic is identified not only with the logic which expressly calls itself formal, or ‘deductive,’ but with any logic which, like the ordinary ‘inductive’ logic, is, in ...

Description: A first course in formal deductive logic; mechanical and other procedures for distinguishing good arguments from bad. Truth-tables and proofs for sentential (Boolean) connectives, ...

For Aristotle, our unique capacity to reason is what defines us as human beings. Therefore, our happiness, or our flourishing, consists in leading a life that enables us to use and develop our reason, ...

This research is part of a larger effort to build machine-based tools for developing scientific theories. In analogy with the research process in empirical research, we describe a logical cycle of ...

There is an interesting saying: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Bloom, an American educational psychologist, and many others in the educational ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is mainly a response to Charles Morgan's criticisms (this journal, pp. 511-25) of the author's model of the (formal aspects of) ...