Text Book : –
“Introduction to Logic” by Irven M. Copi
“A concise Introduction to Logic” by Patrick J. Hurley
Course Description : –
The Introduction to Logic, written by Copi, Cohen & McMahon, is dedicated to the many thousands of students and their teachers – at hundreds of universities in the United States and around the world – who have used its fundamental methods and techniques of correct reasoning in their everyday lives.
- Basic Logical Concepts .
- 1.1: Definition of Logic .
- 1.2: Logic as a Science and Art .
- 1.3: The scope of Logic .
- 1.4: Proposition, Arguments .
- 1.5: Conclusion-indicators and Premise-indicators .
- 1.6: The Laws of Thought .
- 1.7: Characteristics of Induction and Deduction .
- The Uses of Language .
- 2.1: The basic user of language .
- 2.2: Discourse serving multiple functions .
- 2.3: The forms of discourse .
- 2.4: Kinds of agreement and disagreement .
- Fallacies .
- 3.1: The classification of Fallacies .
- 3.2: Fallacy of Relevance .
- 3.3: Fallacy of Ambiguity .
- Categorical Propositions .
- 4.1: The theory of Deduction .
- 4.2: Classes and Categorical Propositions .
- 4.3: The four kinds of Categorical Proposition .
- 4.4: Quality, Quantity and Distribution .
- 4.5: The traditional square of opposition .
- 4.6: Obversion, Contraposition .
- 4.7: Symbolism and Diagrams of Categorical Proposition .
- Categorical Syllogism .
- 5.1: Standard form of Categorical Syllogism .
- 5.2: The formal nature of Syllogistic arguments .
- 5.3: Venn diagram technique for testing Syllogism .
- 5.4: Syllogistic Rules and Fallacies .
- 5.5: Exposition of the 15 Valid forms of Categorical Syllogism .
- Syllogism in ordinary Language .
- 6.1: Syllogistic Arguments .
- 6.2: Dilemma .
- 6.3: Disjunctive and Hypothetical Syllogism .
- Symbolic Logic .
- 7.1: Modern Logic and Symbolic Language .
- 7.2: The symbols for Conjunction, Negation, and Disjunction .
- 7.3: The precise meaning of Valid and Invalid .
- 7.4: Testing arguments on Truth Table .
- Science and Hypothesis .
- 8.1: Hypothesis .
- 8.2: Scientific explanation and Unscientific explanation .