PHIL& 120: Symbolic Logic

H,Q- This philosophy course enables students to symbolize and analyze the structural basis of arguments encountered every day, for example, in college lectures and texts, in advertisements and the media, and at work. By focusing on core content of symbolic logic--namely sentence logic with proofs and predicate logic with quantifiers and proofs--students will learn to describe the structure of arguments, translate passages in ordinary language into symbolic notation, and by doing so, determine whether or not the arguments are valid.