Logic I: Tools for Thinking - Student Text

Chapters

• 1 Thinking and Reasoning
• 2 Logic: A Science and a Toolbox
• 3 Language
• 4 Statements and Truth
• 5 How to Be Contrary
• 6 Negation
• 7 Atoms and Molecules
• 8 The Conjunction and Disjunction Operators
• 9 Combining Operators
• 10 Evaluating Molecular Statements
• 11 The Equivalece Operator
• 12 The Implication Operator
• 13 Atoms, Molecules, and Big Molecules
• 14 The Moleculan Language
• 15 Moleculan Grammar
• 16 Truth and Meaning in Moleculan
• 17 Truth Tables and the Five Logical Operators
• 18 Evaluating Moleculan Sentences
• 19 Sentences That Are Always True (or False)
• 20 Metamoleculan and Moleculan Tautologies
• 21 Arguments: The good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• 22 Recognizing and Standardizing Arguments
• 23 Moleculan Arguments
• 24 Testing Moleculan Arguments for Validity
• 25 Arguments that Have Names
• 26 More Arguments
• 27 Three Kinds of Arguments
• 28 The Appeal to Authority
• 29 Identifying the Appeal to Authority
• 30 The Argument from Analogy
• 31 The Inductive Generalization
• 32 Questions and Real Questions
• 33 Questions and Their Answers