Logic
Regular price
$620.00
Day: Monday - Thursday
Times (Pacific Time):
6:00am - 6:50am - Carson Spratt
7:00am - 7:50am - Carson Spratt
10:00am - 10:50am - Chris Comis
11:00am - 11:50am - Chris Comis
Class Description: Logic should be your secret weapon. It's the tool for learning how to use other tools. It's the bones that give a clenched fist its structure (and knuckles).
This course follows James B. Nance's standard Logic textbooks, in which students learn the fundamentals needed to think well wherever you are, including:
- How to properly define terms for maximum precision and accuracy -- and thus win the debate,
- How to form and interpret statements, the building blocks of logical thought,
- How to compose valid syllogisms, and -- just as importantly -- expose the invalid fakes using counterexamples,
- How to analyze arguments in normal English,
- How to identify and deflect informal fallacies (one of the most instantly applicable parts of logic),
Students will also master propositional arguments:
- How to interpret and analyze logical operators and truth tables by reviewing and applying the concepts of validity, contradiction, consistency, and equivalence,
- How to internalize the nine basic rules of inference to derive an argument's conclusions from its premises,
- How to easily determine consistency, self-contradiction, tautology, equivalence, and validity by using truth trees,
- How to apply all these skills to real-life thinkers and writers wherever you encounter them,
- An all-new optional unit on understanding digital logic, the "language" which modern gadgets (from digital alarm clock displays to computer processors) use to function.
Credits: 1 (Elective or Science)
Prerequisite: Must be 7th grade
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