Introduction to Logic OER
Overview
An introductory text in logic intended for the first two years of college covering basics, informal fallacies, inductive reasoning, categorical and propositional logic.
Project Planning
My OER Goals & Purpose: What have you discovered during this OER Series and what are you planning to accomplish next? The most useful thing so far has been this remixing option. My plan is to create an OER for Introduction to Logic with an accompanying homework platform (that's where most of the work will be).
My Audience: I'm aiming at college students in their first two years, but particularly their first semester, since I want accessing and 'paying' for their text as easy as possible for their sake and mine.
My Team: Who I think I really only need some tech support/advice early in the process.
Existing Resources: For the text, I plan on cutting, pasting, and revising the following two sources. I don't think they are in the Commons area, so I'm not sure how to add them there.
New Resources: I primarly just need to create a whole lotta logic problems for homework.
Supports Needed: I don't think so.
Our Timeline: I have not firmly established a timeline, but I hope it doesn't take more than two years.
Chapter One: Introduction to Basic Concepts
- Statements, Premises, and Conclusions
- Truth value & Statements vs. non-statements
- 10x3 problems
- "Hurry up and finish your dinner!" This does or does not have truth value and therefore is or is not a sentence.
- 10x3 problems
- Premise Indicators
- 5x3 problems
- An argument where they have to identify the premise indicator word and the premise.
- 5x3 problems
- Conclusion Indicators
- 5x3 problems
- An argument where they have to identify the conclusion indicator and the conclusion
- 5x3 problems
- Standard Form
- 5x3 problems
- Have to rewrite arguments in standard form.
- 5x3 problems
- Truth value & Statements vs. non-statements
- Arguments vs. non-arguments
- Factual Claims
- 5x3 problems
- Students identify factual vs. non-factual claims
- 5x3 problems
- Inferential Claims
- 5x3 problems
- Students identify inferential vs. non-inferential claims
- 5x3 problems
- Simple non-inferential passages
- 10x3 problems
- Students identify piece of advice, loosely associated sentences, reports, and warnings
- 10x3 problems
- Explanations, Expository Passages, and Illustrations
- 10x3 problems
- Students identify explanations, expository passages, illustrations, and arguments
- 10x3 problems
- Arguments vs non-arguments
- 10x3 problems
- Students identify arguments from all types of non-arguments
- 10x3 problems
- Factual Claims
- Deductive vs. Inductive arguments
- Probablity vs. Necessity
- 5x3 problems
- Students figure out if the argument uses necessary or probablisitic reasoning and is therefore deductive or inductive
- 5x3 problems
- Indicator words
- 10x3 problems
- Students identify indicator words used in arguments (some are indicators are correct and some aren't)
- 10x3 problems
- Deductive Argument Forms
- Probablity vs. Necessity
- Evalutaing Arguments
- The Counterexample Method
Chapter Two: Informal Fallacies
- Fallacies of Relevance
- Fallacies of Weak Induction
- Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Transference
Chapter Three: Analogical and Causal Reasoning
- Analogical Reasoning
- Causal Reasoning
Chapter Four: Categorical Arguments
- Parts & Properties of Categorical Statements
- The Modern Square of Opposition & The Three Operations
- The Traditional Square of Opposition
- Properties of Categorical Syllogisms
- Evaluating Categorical Syllogisms
Chapter Five: Propositional Logic
- Truth Functions
- Truth Tables for Propositions & Arguments
- Indirect Truth Tables
Chapter Six: Natural Deduction
- First Four Rules of Implication
- Second Four Rules of Implication
- First Five Rules of Replacement
- Second Five Rules of Replacement
Reflection
I'll have more control and flexibility with the text. Most importantly, it will save my students money, and it will ease some of the beginning-of-the-semester for students and me.