An introduction to formal logic [DVD]

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An introduction to formal logic

(2016)

Nonfiction

DVD

Series:

Great courses (DVD)

Call Numbers:

DVD/160/INTRODUCTION

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Nonfiction DVDs	DVD/160/INTRODUCTION	Due: 5/11/2024

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PUBLISHED

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2016]
©2016

DESCRIPTION

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)

ISBN/ISSN

9781629972671, 1629972673

LANGUAGE

English

SERIES

Great courses (DVD)

NOTES

24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture

"Course No. 4215

Presenter, Dr. Steven Gimbel, professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College

Disc 1.

Why study logic? ; Introduction to logical concepts ; Informal logic and fallacies ; Fallacies of faulty authority ; Fallacies of cause and effect ; Fallacies of irrelevance --

Disc 2.

Inductive reasoning ; Induction in polls and science ; Introduction to formal logic ; Truth-functional logic ; Truth tables ; Truth tables and validity --

Disc 3.

Natural deduction ; Logical proofs with equivalencies ; Conditional and indirect proofs ; First-order predicate logic ; Validity in first-order predicate logic ; Demonstrating invalidity --