Course Information
| Instructor | Professor David Emmanuel Gray |
| Contact | CMUQ 1039, degray@cmu.edu, @ProfessorDEG |
| Office hours | By appointment, or whenever the instructor’s office door is open |
| Class time | Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday: 4:30pm–5:20pm |
| Class location | CMUQ 3044 |
| Syllabus | PDF. |
Grading
- Participation
- 13 Problem Sets
- 11 Quizzes
(Lowest 3 are dropped.) - 3 Unit Exams
- Final Exam
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Schedule
| Date | Topic/Readings | Assignments |
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| 8/20 (Sun) | Course Introduction (slides) | Problem set #1 (solutions), and Logic puzzle #1 sample solution. |
| 8/22 (Tue) | What is an Argument? (Unit #1) (slides) Copi & Cohen, “What Logic Is”. Copi & Cohen, “Propositions and Arguments”. |
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| 8/24 (Thu) | What is an Argument? (slides) Workshop on statement classification (worksheet). |
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| 8/27 (Sun) | What is an Argument? (slides) Vaughn, “Claims and Reasons”. Vaughn, “Reasons and Arguments”. |
Quiz #1, and Problem set #2 (solutions). |
| 8/29 (Tue) | What is an Argument? (slides) Vaughn, “Arguments in the Rough”. |
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| 8/31 (Thu) | ⛰ Day of Arafat 🙇📿🙏⛰ Worksheet on argument parsing (solution). |
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| 9/3–7 | 🌴 Eid Al-Adha Break 🔪🐐🎁🌴 | 👇👇👇👇👇👇 |
| 9/10 (Sun) | Understanding an Argument (Unit #2) (slides) Vaughn, “Diagramming Arguments”. |
🚨 Quiz #2 🚨, and Problem set #3 (solutions). |
| 9/12 (Tue) | Understanding an Argument (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Diagramming Arguments”. |
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| 9/14 (Thu) | Understanding an Argument (slides) Workshop on diagramming arguments (worksheet). |
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| 9/17 (Sun) | Understanding an Argument (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Emotive Language, Neutral Language, and Disputes”. Copi & Cohen, “Disputes and Ambiguity”. |
Quiz #3, and Problem set #4 (solutions). |
| 9/19 (Tue) | Review of Informal Logical Reasoning (Units #1 and #2) (slides) | |
| 9/21 (Thu) | 🚨 The exam will be held in Lecture Hall 1064. 🚨 (This room is on the ground floor, next to the A.R.C.) |
Unit exam #1. |
| 9/24 (Sun) | Assessing Arguments (Unit #3) (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Deductive and Inductive Arguments”. |
Problem set #5 (solutions). |
| 9/26 (Tue) | Assessing Arguments (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Validity and Truth”. |
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| 9/28 (Thu) | Assessing Arguments (slides) Workshop on creating valid and invalid arguments (worksheet). |
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| 10/1 (Sun) | Modern Propositional Logic (Unit #4) (slides) Vaughn, “Connectives and Truth Values”. |
Quiz #4, and Problem set #6 (solutions). |
| 10/3 (Tue) | Modern Propositional Logic (slides) Reread: Vaughn, “Connectives and Truth Values”. |
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| 10/5 (Thu) | Modern Propositional Logic (slides) Workshop on translating natural language and creating truth tables (worksheet). |
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| 10/8 (Sun) | Modern Propositional Logic (slides) Vaughn, “Checking for Validity”. |
Quiz #5, and Problem set #7 (solutions). |
| 10/10 (Tue) | Modern Propositional Logic (slides) Vaughn, “Argument Patterns”. |
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| 10/12 (Thu) | Modern Propositional Logic (slides) Workshop on assessing arguments with truth tables (worksheet). |
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| 10/15 (Sun) | Natural Deduction (Unit #5) (slides) Copi & Cohen, “The Elementary Valid Argument Forms”. |
Quiz #6, and Problem set #8 (solutions). |
| 10/17 (Tue) | Natural Deduction (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Formal Proofs of Validity Exhibited”. |
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| 10/19 (Thu) | Natural Deduction (slides) Workshop on identifying valid argument forms (worksheet). |
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| 10/22 (Sun) | Natural Deduction (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Constructing Formal Proofs of Validity”. |
Quiz #7, and Problem set #9 (solutions). |
| 10/24 (Tue) | Natural Deduction (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Constructing More Extended Formal Proofs”. |
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| 10/26 (Thu) | Natural Deduction (slides) Workshop on natural deduction (worksheet). |
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| 10/29 (Sun) | Natural Deduction (slides) Reread: Copi & Cohen, “Constructing More Extended Formal Proofs”. |
Quiz #8, and Problem set #10 (solutions). |
| 10/31 (Tue) | Review of Modern Symbolic Logic (Units #3, #4, & #5) (slides) | |
| 11/2 (Thu) | 🚨 The exam will be held in Lecture Hall 1064. 🚨 (This room is on the ground floor, next to the A.R.C.) |
Unit exam #2. |
| 11/5 (Sun) | Classic Categorical Logic (Unit #6) (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Classes and Categorical Propositions”. Copi & Cohen, “The Four Kinds of Categorical Propositions”. Copi & Cohen, “Quality, Quantity, and Distribution”. |
Problem set #11 (solutions). |
| 11/7 (Tue) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Vaughn, “Statements and Classes”. Vaughn, “Translations and Standard Form”. Vaughn, “Diagramming Categorical Statements”. |
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| 11/9 (Thu) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Workshop on analyzing categorical statements (worksheet). |
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| 11/12 (Sun) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Copi & Cohen, “The Traditional Square of Opposition”. |
Quiz #9, and Problem set #12 (solutions). |
| 11/14 (Tue) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Further Immediate Inferences”. |
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| 11/16 (Thu) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Workshop on inferences with categorical statements (worksheet). |
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| 11/19 (Sun) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Copi & Cohen, “Standard-Form Categorical Syllogisms”. |
Quiz #10, and Problem set #13 (solutions). |
| 11/21 (Tue) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Vaughn, “Sizing Up Categorical Syllogisms”. |
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| 11/23 (Thu) | Classic Categorical Logic (slides) Workshop on assessing categorical syllogisms (worksheet). |
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| 11/26 (Sun) | Review of Classic Categorical Logic (Unit #6) (slides) | Quiz #11. |
| 11/28 (Tue) | 🚨 The exam will be held in Lecture Hall 1064. 🚨 (This room is on the ground floor, next to the A.R.C.) |
Unit exam #3. |
| 11/30 (Thu) | Review for Final Exam (slides). | Problem set #14 (solutions). |
| 12/6 (Wed) | 🚨 The exam will be held from 1:30pm to 4:30pm in Lecture Hall 1064. 🚨 (This room is on the ground floor, next to the A.R.C.) |
Final exam. |