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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This course taught learners to use logic to evaluate arguments, and discover more about philosophical concepts like truth-tables and logical form.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Professor Tom Stoneham
Dean of Graduate Research School
University of York
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate arguments (chains of reasoning) using a formal language as a tool
- Apply an understanding of the concept of validity in evaluating arguments
- Explore the relationships between formal languages and everyday or ‘natural’ languages
- Apply an understanding of the idea of a formal language — a specially created language with key vocabulary having carefully specified precise meanings — in analysing and understanding claims expressed in everyday language
Syllabus
- How to use formal logic as a tool to clarify and evaluate arguments
- Identifying the premises and conclusions of arguments;
- Applying the philosophical concepts of ‘truth-value’, ‘validity’, ‘logical form’, ‘sentence connective’ and ‘truth-function’;
- Using truth-tables to work out the truth-values of compound sentences
- Using truth-tables to test arguments for validity;
- Exploring the relationship between formal logical language and natural language
Issued on 12th February 2021
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