| CODE | PHI2001 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Logic | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Philosophy | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | - Elementary assertions. Elementary propositions; true, false and indefinite. How are elementary assertions useful? - The negator. The mediate and immediate assertion of an elementary proposition. The double negation of an elementary proposition. - The adjunctor. The mediate and immediate assertion of an adjunction. The double negation of an adjunction. - Sound arguments. The effective scenario tableau. - The conjunctor and subjunctor. - Effective and classical dialogues and dialogue-based developments. - Classical Beth tableaux. - The all-quantor and the some-quantor. The soundness of arguments containing quantified propositions. - Aristotelian propositions and their translation using quantors and junctors; their conversion and opposition. Syllogisms; testing their soundness by means of tableaux; direct and indirect reduction of syllogisms. Reading List - Riolo, V. (2001) Introduction to Logic, 2nd or later edition, Malta: MUP. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Mary Ann Cassar |
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