[PHLB50H3] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (28 pages long!)

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Who would you say is a logical person: philosopher or scientist. Stephen hawking, bertram russell: judge, spock, sherlock holmes. What do we contrast this with: norms. Often we say that an argument looks logical when it looks like the conclusion must be t(cid:396)ue. In part, this is because logic is the study, and the evaluation, of reasoning and argument. The central aim of this course is to provide with an introduction to the tools that philosophers use in the modern study of logic. So, that covers the logic, and you(cid:859)(cid:448)e hi(cid:374)ted at that (cid:449)e(cid:859)(cid:396)e looki(cid:374)g at modern logic, does that i(cid:373)pl(cid:455) that the(cid:396)e(cid:859)s othe(cid:396) ki(cid:374)ds: well, yes! Philosophers have been concerned with logic for an extremely long time. Ancient greek philosophers had worked out systems for classifying and evaluating reasoning (aristotle, chrysippus: this tradition continues throughout the history of philosophy (leibniz, frege, Russell) up unto the present day (field, beall, yap)