As promised, HERE is the glossary for Introductory Logic. This glossary includes terms that are defined in the text, in the lesson and on the page noted.
If you are looking for the Intermediate Logic glossary, click HERE.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Great Books Challenge
Hi, lovers of the classics! I have accepted the Great Books challenge for parents by Roman Roads Media. I will be reading Virgil’s Aeneid, watching the lectures by Wes Callihan, and doing the assignments. As I blog through the lessons, you can all keep me accountable. Join me, and take advantage of the free curriculum offered to those who complete it. Watch for my first post soon!
Glossary for Intermediate Logic
Download the new glossary for Intermediate Logic HERE.
This glossary includes terms that are defined in the text in the lesson and on the page noted. It does not include the rules that are given in the appendices, but does include some key terms carried over from Introductory Logic.
Looking for the Introductory Logic glossary? Click HERE.
A Helpful Analogy
“Why study formal logic? Everyone knows how to reason.”
This is like asking
“Why study English grammar? Everyone knows how to speak.”
Circular Reasoning
One of the enjoyable elements of learning Logic is when “the rubber meets the road!” The logical fallacies you learn in Introductory Logic are fallacies we all see every day!
Here I go over a very common fallacy: Circular Reasoning.
And here is a shorter clip on the “Ad Hominem” fallacy:
Masters of Words in their Intellects
Sayers mentions film and radio. How much more relevant is her complaint in this day of TV and the Internet?
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects. – Dorothy Sayers
Logic in the Movies
A scene from the movie Get Smart makes for a good illustration of an exercise from lesson 28 in Intermediate Logic.
256 Forms of Mood and Figure
It IS possible to go through all 256 Forms of Mood and Figure, a challenge from Lesson 24 of Introductory Logic Video course. And I prove it to you here!
Part I
Part II