Logic & Philosophy of Science

Course Description


Course:  LPS 29; Phil 29
Name:  Critical Reasoning
Description:  Introduction to analysis and reasoning. The concepts of argument, premise, and conclusion, validity and invalidity, consistency and inconsistency. Identifying and assessing premises and inferences. Deductive versus inductive reasoning, and introduction to the probability calculus. Evaluating definitions. Informal fallacies.
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