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Basic Concepts | |
Validity and Soundness | |
Forms and Validity | |
Counterexamples and Invalidity | |
Strength and Cogency | |
Identifying Arguments | |
Arguments and Nonarguments | |
Well-Crafted Arguments | |
Argument Diagrams | |
Logic and Language | |
Logic, Meaning, and Emotive Force | |
Definitions | |
Using Definitions to Evaluate Arguments | |
Informal Fallacies | |
Fallacies of Irrelevance | |
Fallacies Involving Ambiguity | |
Fallacies Involving Unwarranted Assumptions | |
Categorical Logic: Statements | |
Standard Forms of Categorical Statements | |
The Traditional Square of Opposition | |
Further Immediate Inferences | |
Categorical Logic: Syllogisms | |
Standard Form, Mood, and Figure | |
Venn Diagrams and Categorical Statements | |
Venn Diagrams and Categorical Syllogisms | |
The Modern Square of Opposition | |
Enthymemes | |
Sorites and Removing Term-Complements | |
Rules for Evaluating Syllogisms | |
Statement Logic: Truth Tables | |
Symbolizing English Arguments | |
Truth Tables | |
Using Truth Tables to Evaluate Arguments | |
Abbreviated Truth Tables | |
Logically Significant Categories and Relationships | |
Statement Logic: Proofs | |
Implicational Rules of Inference | |
Five Equivalence Rules | |
Five More Equivalence Rules | |
Conditional Proof | |
Reductio ad Absurdum | |
Proving Theorems | |
Predicate Logic | |
Predicates and Quantifiers | |
Demonstrating Invalidity | |
Constructing Proofs | |
Quantifier Negation, RAA, and CP | |
The Logic of Relations: Symbolizations | |
The Logic of Relations: Proofs | |
Identity: Symbolizations | |
Identity: Proofs | |
Induction | |
Inductive and Deductive Logic: Contrasts and Clarifications | |
Arguments from Authority and Induction by Enumeration | |
Mill's Methods and Scientific Reasoning | |
Arguments from Analogy | |
Probability | |
Three Theories of Probability | |
The Rules of Probability | |
Bayes' Theorem | |
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