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Philosophy 111 Critical Thinking

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CRITICAL THINKING
LECTURES	CONTENTS
	Recognizing Arguments Recognizing Premises and Conclusions
	Standardizing Complex Arguments Types of Premise Support Scope and Degree of Conclusions Unstated or Missing Components
	Deductive Arguments Inductive Arguments Conditions of Cogency
	Acceptability Conditions for Premises
	Types of Definitions Types of Relevancy Ambiguity and Vagueness Introduction to Fallacies
	Examples of Fallacies Overview of Argumentation Process
	Recognizing Analogies Associated Fallacies Evaluation of Analogies
	Categorical Logic The Square of Opposition Venn Diagrams Rules for Categorical Syllogisms
	Propositional Logic Constructing Truth Tables Notes about Word Usage Short Truth Tables Deductive Proofs

The textbook that was used in conjunction with these notes is Trudy Govier's A Practical Study of Argument, (3rd Ed., Wadsworth Publishing , Belmont, California 1992)