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PHIL H260 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC (1.0 Credit)
Danielle Macbeth
Division: Humanities; Symbolic Reasoning
Domain(s): A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts)
Our aim is two-fold: first, to understand - in the sense of having a working knowledge of - both traditional Aristotelean and modern quantificational logic (translating sentences into logical notation, assessing the validity of arguments, constructing proofs, and so on); and second, to understand logic, why it matters, what it can teach us (both as philosophers and as thinkers more generally), and how it "works" in the broadest sense.