PHL245H1 Lecture Notes - List Of Logic Symbols, Propositional Calculus, Syllogism
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15% weekly assignments (online) normally due tuesday before class. Symbols allow you to look at the core of the aruument so that you are not distracted by the philosophical content: allows for pattern recognition. Chrsippus propositional logic that anticipates modern logic. Leibniz possible father of symbolic logic. Frege father of contemporary logic: laid foundations for logic that we are doing, thought logic were the laws of thought. Russel principia mathematica: source of system we will be using. Conclusion - the statement, thesis or opinion being argued for. Note * - a conclusion in one statement can be the premise for another and vice versa. Identifying the argument being given in support of a conclusion, as reason or justification. Ex: because, being that, assuming that, follows from etc. clause is the conclusion for which reasons or justification will be given. Note *** think about how the word is being used. Conclusion indicators words or phrases showing that the sentence or.
