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PHI-104: Critical Thinking
This course examines the methods and principles used for distinguishing cogent reasoning from faulty reasoning. Topics include deductive and inductive reasoning, common fallacies, language, and impediments to cogent reasoning. Emphasis will be on developing abilities to analyze, construct, and evaluate arguments that are relevant to everyday life experiences. Please return to the Lake Tahoe Community College Rising Scholar Program if found.
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Mục lục· 47 mục
- 01: Reconstructing and Analyzing Arguments
- 1.01: What is an Argument
- 1.02: Identifying Arguments
- 1.03: Arguments vs. Explanations
- 1.04: More Complex Argument Structures
- 1.05: Using Your Own Paraphrases of Premises and Conclusions to Reconstruct Arguments in Standard Form
- 1.06: Validity
- 1.07: Soundness
- 1.08: Deductive vs. Inductive Arguments
- 1.09: Arguments with Missing Premises
- 1.10: Assuring guarding and Discounting
- 1.11: Evaluating Language
- 1.12: Evaluating a Real-Life Argument
- 02: Formal Methods of Evaluating Arguments
- 2.01: What is a Formal Method of Evaluation and Why Do We Need Them
- 2.02: Propositional Logic and the Four Basic Truth Functional Connectives
- 2.03: Negation and Disjunction
- 2.04: Using Paranthesis to Translate Complex Sentences
- 2.05: Not Both and Neither Nor
- 2.06: The Truth Table Test of Validity
- 2.07: Conditionals
- 2.08: Unless
- 2.09: Material Equivalence
- 2.10: Tautologies Contradictions and Contingent Statements
- 2.11: Proofs and the Eight Valid Forms of Inference
- 2.12: How to Construct Proofs
- 2.13: Short Review of Propositional Logic
- 2.14: Categorical Logic
- 2.15: The Venn Test of Validity for Immediate Categorical Inferences
- 2.16: Universal Statements and Existential Commitment
- 2.17: Venn Validity for Categorical Syllogisms
- 03: Evaluating Inductive Arguments and Probabilistic and Statistical Fallacies
- 3.01: Inductive Arguments and Statistical Generalizations
- 3.02: Inference to the Best Explanation and the Seven Explanatory Virtues
- 3.03: Analogical Arguments
- 3.04: Analogical Arguments
- 3.05: Probability
- 3.06: The Conjunction Fallacy
- 3.07: The Base Rate Fallacy
- 3.08: The Small Numbers Fallacy
- 3.09: Regression to the Mean Fallacy
- 3.10: Gambler's Fallacy
- 04: Informal Fallacies
- 4.01: Formal vs. Informal Fallacies
- 4.02: Slippery Slope Fallacies
- 4.03: Fallacies of Relevance
- 4.04: Exercise Answers