Hey Folks!

This week we continue to talk about arguments.

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Essential Question

What are the differences between deductive and non-deductive arguments.

Learning Objectives

Types of Arguments

Objectives: Understand the difference between deductive and non-deductive arguments. Understand the concepts of validity and soundness. Create truth tables.

Logical Connectives and Translation

Objectives: Understand what atomic sentences are and how they are symbolized. Understand what logical connectives are and what the truth tables are for conjunction, negation, disjunction, material conditional, and material biconditional. Understand why the truth tales for these connectives are as they are.

This Week’s Assignments

1. Types of Arguments
2. Logical Connectives and Translation

Last Week’s Assignments

1. What’s Your Reason?
2. Being a (Nice) Philosopher