Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Midterm

The midterm will be held at the beginning of class on Monday, November 1st. It's worth 15% of your overall grade, and will cover everything we've done in class so far:
  • definitions of 'logic,' 'reasoning,' and 'argument'
  • evaluating arguments
  • types of arguments:
    -deductive (aim for certainty, are valid/invalid and sound/unsound)
    -inductive (generalizing from examples, depend on large, representative samples)
    -args about cause/effect (correlation vs. causation)
    -abductive (inferences to the best explanation)
  • the 12 fallacies covered in class so far
Get to studying!

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