Lesson Goals
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- grasp the scope and purpose of logic;
- define an argument and its main features and components;
- define logical form;
- define a declarative sentence and its role in inferential practice;
- characterize the intellectual and practical importance of logic;
- recast natural language arguments in premise-conclusion form;
- understand the importance of Aristotelian logic both historically, and practically;
- understand what classes of statements can be described by logic.
Exercise 1
Directions: For the following sequences of statements, identify whether they are an argument or not. If you find an argument, reduce it to premise-conclusion form. If you find a sequence of statements that is not an argument, justify this conclusion.
LOGIC MADE ACCESSIBLE
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