Thiel Intro to Language & Logic

Week	Date	Material: Tuesday	Thursday
1	1/16 & 1/18/01	Hand out syllabus, introduce text, outline study of logic Section 1.1 Arguments, Premises and Conclusions	Section 1.2 Recognizing Arguments
2	1/23 & 1/25/01	Section 1.3 Deduction and Induction Section 1.4 Validity, Truth & Soundness, Strength, Cogency	Section 1.5 Argument Forms: Proving Validity
3	1/30 & 2/1/01	Quiz Chapter 1 Section 4.1 The Components of Categorical Propositions	4.2 Quality, Quantity and Distribution
4	2/6 & 2/8/01	Section 4.3 Venn Diagrams and the Modern Square of Opposition	Section 4.4 Conversion, Obversion and Contraposition Catch-up and problem solving session.
5	2/13 & 2/15/01	Quiz 4.1 – 4.4 Section 4.5 The Traditional Square of Opposition	Section 4.6 Venn Diagrams and the Traditional Standpoint Section 4.7 Translating Ordinary Statements into Categorical Form
6	2/20 & 2/22/01	Section 5.1 Standard Form, Mood and Figure	Section 5.2 Venn Diagrams
7	2/27 & 3/1/01	Section 5.3 Rules and Fallacies	Section 5.4 Reducing the Number of Terms
8	3/13 & 3/15/01	Review for Midterm	MIDTERM [Chapters 1, 4 & 5]
9	3/20 & 3/22/01	Section 6.1 Symbols & Translation	Section 6.2 Truth Functions
10	3/27 & 3/29/01	Section 6.3 Truth Tables for Propositions	Section 6.4 Truth Tables for Arguments
11	4/3 & 4/5/01	Section 6.5 Indirect Truth Tables	Section 6.6 Argument Forms and Fallacies
12	4/10 & 4/12/01	Catch up and solve problems	Quiz Chapter 6
13	4/17 & 4/19/01	Section 3.1 Fallacies in General Section 3.2 Fallacies of Relevance	Section 3.3 Fallacies of Weak Induction
14	4/24 & 4/26/01	Section 3.4 Fallacies of Presumption	Fallacy practice session
15	5/1 & 5/3/01	Review for FINAL	Final Exam No Make-ups

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