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reasoning, argument and logic

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Decks in this class (24)

Propositions (relevant)
What is a proposition,
What can a proposition be,
How can you test if something is ...
8  cards
Premises (relevant)
What is a premise,
Where might a premise appear in a...,
How might a premise be marked if ...
4  cards
Conclusions (relevant)
What is a conclusion,
What expressions signal a conclusion
2  cards
Rhetoric
What is rhetorical force,
How might rhetorical force change...,
How to get rid of rhetoric
3  cards
Bullshit
What are bullshit statements inte...,
How does the speaker feel about t...
2  cards
Lies
What is the purpose of lies,
How does the speaker feel about t...
2  cards
Ambiguity
What is semantic ambiguity,
What is syntactic ambiguity,
How to get rid of ambiguities
3  cards
Support
What are the two kinds of support,
Entailment,
Inductive support
3  cards
Argument (relevant)
What is an argument made up of,
What is an argument,
When is an argument deductively v...
6  cards
Counter-example (relevant)
What is a counter example,
What does a counter example show
2  cards
Validity (relevant)
When is argument valid,
If the premises are true,
How to test validity
5  cards
Standard Form
What is standard form,
What has to be evident for standa...,
How does standard form help
3  cards
Logical Form
What is logical form
1  cards
Principle of Charity
What is the aim of the principle ...,
What needs to be gotten rid of fo...,
What needs to be added for the pr...
4  cards
Valid argument forms (relevant)
Modus ponens,
What does modus ponens mean,
Modus tollens
20  cards
Fallacies
What is a fallacy,
Formal fallacies,
Substantive material fallacies
21  cards
Distinctions and tools (relevant)
Proper distinction,
Mutually exclusive terms,
Exhaustive terms
23  cards
Formal logic (relevant)
What is formal logic,
What does formal logic help to do,
Formal validity
13  cards
Formal language (relevant)
What does the development of form...,
What is the language,
What is symbolisation
17  cards
Truth functional logic (relevant)
Three kinds of symbols in tfl,
Formal definition of a sentence o...,
Every sentence is constructed out of
25  cards
First-order logic (relevant)
What does the fol do,
Names,
Predicates are
17  cards
Multiple generality (relevant)
What does multiple generality ref...,
What are many english sentences u...,
What can these ambiguities lead to
11  cards
Necessity and related notions (relevant)
Necessary truth,
Contingent truth,
A priori truth
7  cards
Conditionals (relevant)
What is a conditional,
The antecedent of a conditional is,
The consequent of a conditional is
11  cards

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