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Socratic logic
2008, ST Augustines Press, St. Augustines Press, Brand: St. Augustines Press
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Socratic Logic: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles
November 2003, St. Augustine's Press
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1890318892 9781890318895
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Table of Contents
What good is logic?
Seventeen ways this book is different
The two logics
All of logic in two pages : an overview
The three acts of the mind
I. The first act of the mind : understanding
Understanding : the thing that distinguishes man from both beast and computer
Concepts, terms and words
The problem of universals
The comprehension and extension of terms
II. Terms
Classifying terms
Categories
Predicables
Division
III. Material fallacies
Fallacies of language
Fallacies of diversion
Fallacies of oversimplification
Fallacies of argumentation
Inductive fallacies
Procedural fallacies
Metaphysical fallacies
Short story : love is a fallacy
IV. Definition
The nature of definition
The rules of definition
The kinds of definition
The limits of definition
V. Second act of the mind : judgment
Judgments, propositions, and sentences
What is truth?
The four kinds of categorical propositions
Logical form
Euler's circles
Tricky propositions
The distribution of terms
VI. Changing propositions
Immediate inference
Conversion
Obversion
Contraposition
VII. Contradiction
What is contradiction?
The square of opposition
Existential import
Tricky propositions on the square
Some practical uses of the square of opposition
VIII. The third act of the mind : reasoning
What does reason mean?
The ultimate foundations of the syllogism
How to detect arguments
Arguments vs. explanations
Truth and validity
IX. Different kinds of arguments
Three meanings of because
The four causes
A classification of arguments
Simple argument maps
Deductive and inductive arguments
Combining deduction and induction : socratic method
X. Syllogisms
The structure and strategy of the syllogism
The skeptics objection to the syllogism
The empiricist's objection to the syllogism
Demonstrative syllogisms
How to construct convincing syllogisms
XI. Checking syllogisms for validity
By Euler's circles
By Aristotle's six rules
Barbara Celarent : mood and figure
Venn diagrams
XII. More difficult syllogisms
Enthymemes : abbreviated syllogisms
Sorites : chain syllogisms
Epicheiremas : multiple syllogisms
Complex argument maps
XIII. Compound syllogisms
Hypothetical syllogisms
Reductio ad absurdum arguments
The practical syllogism : arguing about means and ends
Disjunctive syllogisms
Conjunctive syllogisms
Dilemmas
XIV. Induction
What is induction?
Generalization
Causal induction : Mill's methods
Scientific hypotheses
Statistical probability
Arguments from analogy
A fortiori and a minore arguments
XV. Some practical applications of logic
How to write a logical essay
How to write a socratic dialogue
How to have a socratic debate
How to use socratic method on difficult people
How to read a book socratically
XVI. Some philosophical applications of logic
Logic and theology
Logic and metaphysics
Logic and cosmology
Logic and philosophical anthropology
Logic and epistemology
Logic and ethics.
Edition Notes
Includes index.
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