1. Read: H. Siegel, "Educating Reason"
2. Read: Joseph McInerney, "Animals in Education: Are we Prisoners of False Sentiment?"
Animals in Education: Are We Prisoners of False Sentiment? (jstor.org)
Can you identify any fallacies or mistakes in reasoning in McInerney's essay?
Supplemental reading: Silliman & Braden-Johnson, "Critical Thinking, Autonomy, and Social Justice"
1. Read: Knachel (a new text for us) "chapter 2" (informal logical fallacies):
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/fundamental-methods-of-logic
Do the exercises at the close of the chapter.
Reminder: Quiz #3, Friday, April 12.
1. Read Van Cleave, section 2.14; do exercise set 18.
2. Read 2.17; do exercise set 21.
Reminder: we will go over this sample quiz on Monday following spring break; our second quiz, based on this sample, will be on Wednesday of that same week.
Logic. Spring 2024. Practice Quiz #2 Name:
1. True or False: One can deduce P from the disjunct P or Q.
2. How does an argument differ from an explanation?
3. Write an invalid argument.
4. Write an uncogent
argument.
5. True or
false? “If A then B or C is
equivalent to If B or C then A.”
6. Reproduce the
chart for induction and deduction.
7. Does the following argument violate the
is-ought gap?
Many animals eat
other animals. Humans are animals. Therefore, there is nothing immoral about
humans eating other animals.
8. Translate into
formal symbolic language:
a.
You
cannot both enjoy the class and not attend.
b.
Although
this quiz is cumulative, you will do well if you study.
c.
If you
study or are a genius, you will ace the quiz.
9. Pick any two from exercise 17 and complete the proofs:
1.
2.
Read and do exercises for Van Cleave, 2.5 & 2.7
