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1/25/16
Ch 1
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2 1st 2 pgs
Informal logic- if > then True to True

16Fallacies- bad arguments
Ad populum – appeal to popularity
Appeal to pity (court)
Appeal to emotion (Daisy girl commercial)
Appeal to force (hitler/peer pressure)
Ad hominem-person (attack on person not arguments)
Irrelevant conclusion- appeal to another fallacy
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Argument from ignorance – assumption because we don’t know we do know something
Argument from authority – appeal to illegitimate authority – just because the person… Background
(celeb endorsement)
False cause- a before b, a caused b ( place blame superstition) – repetition makes it better
Hasty generalization – (racism)
Accident – opposite of hasty generalization ( under extreme circumstances )
Complex question – (loaded question) assuming …beating gf
Begging the question – assuming the answer ( circular argument) cant be made false
Equivocation – using a word/phrase with 2 different meanings 2 different way (Freedom isn’t Free)
Composition – a group that are alike a slight difference (parts to whole)
Division – whole to parts (opposite of composition)
Straw man – get an argument and distort it and distort what they are saying

1/27/16

READ 4
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3 – existential import + square of opposition
HW - 4
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2 – identify parts
Categorical logic – relations between classical objects :translateNoun class – what claim does the sentence say about the thing(S)
Quality – If the groups overlap
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Affirmative
Negative : denies overlap

Quantity – how they overlap
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All/no : universal
Some : particular (at least one)

UA – universal Affirmative
UN- universal negative
PA- particular affirmative
PA – particular negative

Categorical form
Quantifier
All/No/Some
Subject noun class
Copula – Are/ Are not – present
Predicate – noun class

* things to avoid change meaning

READ 4
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238 I
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1-5, III 1-5
Square of opposition: how we move from one statement to the next

All _____ are____

No____ are____

U
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N

Contrary-> must be false
T-dwn and F up

t dwn and f up

P
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N

Sub contrary- both can both true, not false
Some___are____

some____arent___

2/8/16
Read venn diagrams pg 212
Hw pg 229
II all
III all but no fallacy

Converse
- switch subject/predicate
Obverse
– change quality
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Complement predicate

Contrapositive
– Switch subject/predicate + non
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Complement both s/p

Read 5
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1 PG269 1- GRAPH PREMISES 2- PUT INTO
STANDARD FORM AND GRAPH PREMISES
READ 5

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