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Socratic Logic 3e : A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles

by: KREEFT PETER

Socratic Logic 3e : A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles

by: KREEFT PETER

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9781587318054
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Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 08/29/2008
Publisher: St Augustine Pr Inc
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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
What good is logic?	p. 1
Seventeen ways this book is different	p. 9
The two logics (P)*	p. 15
All of logic in two pages: an overview (B)*	p. 26
The three acts of the mind (B)	p. 28
The First Act of the Mind: Understanding	p. 35
Understanding: the thing that distinguishes man from both beast and computer (P)	p. 35
Concepts, terms and words (P)	p. 40
The "problem of universals" (P)	p. 41
The comprehension and extension of terms	p. 43
Terms	p. 47
Classifying terms	p. 47
Categories (B)	p. 54
Predicables (B)	p. 56
Division (B)	p. 62
Material Fallacies	p. 68
Fallacies of language	p. 71
Fallacies of diversion	p. 80
Fallacies of oversimplification	p. 86
Fallacies of argumentation	p. 92
Inductive fallacies	p. 100
Procedural fallacies	p. 104
Metaphysical fallacies	p. 109
Short Story: "Love Is a Fallacy"	p. 114
Definition	p. 123
The nature of definition (B)	p. 123
The rules of definition (B)	p. 124
The kinds of definition	p. 124
The limits of definition	p. 129
Second Act of the Mind: Judgment	p. 138
Judgments, propositions, and sentences	p. 138
What is truth? (P)	p. 143
The four kinds of categorical propositions (B)	p. 145
Logical form (B)	p. 147
Euler's circles (B)	p. 152
Tricky propositions	p. 153
The distribution of terms	p. 163
Changing Propositions	p. 166
Immediate inference	p. 166
Conversion (B)	p. 167
Obversion (B)	p. 170
Contraposition	p. 171
Contradiction	p. 173
What is contradiction? (B)	p. 173
The Square of Opposition (B)	p. 174
Existential import (P)	p. 179
Tricky propositions on the Square	p. 181
Some practical uses of the Square of Opposition	p. 183
The Third Act of the Mind: Reasoning	p. 186
What does "reason" mean? (P)	p. 186
The ultimate foundations of the syllogism (P)	p. 187
How to detect arguments	p. 190
Arguments vs. explanations	p. 193
Truth and validity	p. 194
Different Kinds of Arguments	p. 200
Three meanings of "because"	p. 200
The four causes (P)	p. 202
A classification of arguments	p. 205
Simple argument maps (B)	p. 206
Deductive and inductive arguments (B)	p. 210
Combining deduction and induction: Socratic method (P)	p. 211
Syllogisms	p. 215
The structure and strategy of the syllogism (B)	p. 215
The skeptic's objection to the syllogism (P)	p. 219
The empiricist's objection to the syllogism (P)	p. 222
Demonstrative syllogisms	p. 230
How to construct convincing syllogisms (B)	p. 232
Checking Syllogisms for Validity	p. 237
By Euler's Circles (B)	p. 237
By Aristotle's six rules (B)	p. 242
"Barbara Celarent": mood and figure	p. 257
Venn Diagrams	p. 258
More Difficult Syllogisms	p. 264
Enthymemes: abbreviated syllogisms (B)	p. 264
Sorites: chain syllogisms	p. 275
Epicheiremas: multiple syllogisms (B)	p. 279
Complex argument maps	p. 282
Compound Syllogisms	p. 289
Hypothetical syllogisms (B)	p. 289
"Reductio ad absurdum" arguments	p. 294
The practical syllogism: arguing about means and ends	p. 296
Disjunctive syllogisms (B)	p. 301
Conjunctive syllogisms (B)	p. 303
Dilemmas (B)	p. 306
Induction	p. 313
What is induction?	p. 313
Generalization	p. 315
Causal induction: Mill's methods	p. 319
Scientific hypotheses	p. 325
Statistical probability	p. 328
Arguments from analogy	p. 329
A fortiori and a minore arguments	p. 335
Some Practical Applications of Logic	p. 342
How to write a logical essay	p. 342
How to write a Socratic dialogue	p. 344
How to have a Socratic debate	p. 347
How to use Socratic method on difficult people	p. 350
How to read a book Socratically	p. 356
Some Philosophical Applications of Logic	p. 358
Logic and theology (P)	p. 358
Logic and metaphysics (P)	p. 359
Logic and cosmology (P)	p. 360
Logic and philosophical anthropology (P)	p. 360
Logic and epistemology (P)	p. 362
Logic and ethics (P)	p. 362
Problems with Mathematical Logic	p. 364
Basic modern logic	p. 364
The paradoxes of material implication	p. 366
Responses to the paradoxes of material implication	p. 367
Answers to Even-Numbered Exercises	p. 370
Index of Principal Names	p. 400
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