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Think Again II: How to Reason Deductively
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Субтитры доступны на Arabic, Spanish, German
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Welcome to the Course
Welcome to Think Again: How to Reason Deductively! This course is the second in a series of four courses jointly titled Think Again: How to Reason and Argue. We are excited that you are taking this course, and we hope that you will stick ar...
- Week 1 - Propositional Logic and Truth Tables
CONTENT: This week we will teach you how such phrases as “and”, “or”, “if”, and “not” can work to guarantee the validity or invalidity of the deductive arguments in which they occur. It will also teach you to understand the functioning of these phra...
- Week 2 - Categorical Logic and Syllogisms
CONTENT: This week will teach you how such phrases as “all”, “some”, and “none” can work to guarantee the validity or invalidity of the deductive arguments in which they occur. It will also teach you to understand the functioning of these phrases us...
- Week 3 - Representing Information
CONTENT: This week we will teach you how to use the tools that you’ve learned about in the preceding modules in order to represent information. Information can be communicated in very different ways – by means of different languages or signaling sys...
- Week 4 - Catch-Up and Final Quiz
This week gives you time to catch up and review, because we realize that the previous weeks include a great deal of challenging material. It will also be provide enough time to take the final quiz as often as you want, with different questions each time.
Prerequisite
Instructors
Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Professor
Philosophy
Dr. Ram Neta
Professor
Philosophy
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