PHIL112

An introduction to logic, both deductive and inductive, with emphasis on ways logic is most commonly useful: identification of arguments in context; common fallacies in argument; deduction and validity; categorical propositions and their interpretation; categorical syllogism in standard form and its interpretation; disjunctive and hypothetical syllogisms and other common argument forms; the nature of inductive argument; reasoning from analogy; Mill's canons; scientific method.

Pass/Fail (P), Standard (S)

Liberal Arts (LA)