Study Guide for Concise Introduction to Logic

by Hurley

• ISBN13: 9780534520083
• ISBN10: 0534520081
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Includes summary statements of main points, worked-out examples with answers, and answers to additional exercises from the text.

Table of Contents

Basic Concepts	1	(18)
Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions	1	(2)
Recognizing Arguments	3	(3)
Deduction and Induction	6	(3)
Validity, Truth, Soundness, Strength, Cogency	9	(2)
Argument Forms: Proving Invalidity	11	(3)
Extended Arguments	14	(5)
Language: Meaning and Definition	19	(8)
Varieties of Meaning	19	(1)
The Intension and Extension of Terms	20	(1)
Definitions and Their Purposes	21	(2)
Definitional Techniques	23	(1)
Criteria for Lexical Definitions	24	(3)
Informal Fallacies	27	(16)
Fallacies in General	27	(1)
Fallacies of Relevance	28	(4)
Fallacies of Weak Induction	32	(3)
Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Grammatical Analogy	35	(4)
Fallacies in Ordinary Language	39	(4)
Categorical Propositions	43	(18)
The Components of Categorical Propositions	43	(1)
Quality, Quantity, and Distribution	44	(1)
Venn Diagrams and the Modern Square of Opposition	45	(3)
Conversion, Obversion, and Contraposition	48	(3)
The Traditional Square of Opposition	51	(3)
Venn Diagrams and the Traditional Standpoint	54	(3)
Translating Ordinary Language Statements into Categorical Form	57	(4)
Categorical Syllogisms	61	(16)
Standard Mood, Form, and Figure	61	(4)
Venn Diagrams	65	(2)
Rules and Fallacies	67	(4)
Reducing the Number of Terms	71	(1)
Ordinary Language Arguments	72	(1)
Enthymemes	73	(1)
Sorites	74	(3)
Propositional Logic	77	(14)
Symbols and Translation	77	(2)
Truth Functions	79	(2)
Truth Tables for Propositions	81	(3)
Truth Tables for Arguments	84	(1)
Indirect Truth Tables	85	(2)
Argument Forms and Fallacies	87	(4)
Natural Deduction in Propositional Logic	91	(18)
Rules of Implication I	91	(2)
Rules of Implication II	93	(3)
Rules of Replacement I	96	(2)
Rules of Replacement II	98	(3)
Conditional Proof	101	(2)
Indirect Proof	103	(3)
Proving Logical Truths	106	(3)
Predicate Logic	109	(20)
Symbols and Translation	109	(2)
Using the Rules of Inference	111	(3)
Change of Quantifier Rules	114	(1)
Conditional and Indirect Proof	115	(2)
Proving Invalidity	117	(2)
Relational Predicates and Overlapping Quantifiers	119	(5)
Identity	124	(5)
Induction	129	(12)
Analogy and Legal and Moral Reasoning	129	(2)
Causality and Mill's Methods	131	(2)
Probability	133	(3)
Statistical Reasoning	136	(2)
Hypothetical Reasoning	138	(1)
Science and Superstition	138	(3)
Answers to Additional Exercises	141