Course Contents

1. Basic Logical Concepts: Logic, Proposition and Arguments, Proposition/Statement, Non-declarative sentences, Statement verses sentence, Argument, Recognize the Arguments, Indicator terms, Forms of Non-arguments, Unstated Propositions, Forms of Logic, Types of Reasoning (Deductive and Inductive), Assessment of inductive and deductive arguments, Validity and truth 2. Language and Definitions: Language Functions, Grammatical forms of language, Cognitive, Emotive, Emotively Neutral language, Kinds of Agreement and disagreements, Kinds of Disputes, Copi’s Steps in determining disagreement: A Two Step Process, Definitions and their uses, Five Types of definitions, Structure of definitions, Extension and Intensions, Genus and Difference 3. Fallacies: Fallacy, Types of fallacies, Informal Fallacy, Classification of Informal Fallacy, Fallacy of relevance, Fallacy of Presumption, Fallacies of ambiguity 4. Traditional/Classical logic: Theory of deduction, Classes and categorical proposition, four kinds of categorical proposition, Quality, quantity and distribution, Traditional Square of opposition. Syllogism and diagrams for categorical syllogism 5. Venn diagrams for categorical Syllogisms: Venn diagram technique for testing the syllogisms 6. Symbolic Logic: Modern language and its symbolic language, Symbols for conjunction, negation, disjunction, conditional statements and material implication, Truth tables for testing the compound statements and syllogisms.

Course Synopsis

This subject is designed to enable the students to gain basic idea of logic. The course will provide students the knowledge about Logical factors. A logical student can develop a comfortable solution of business and commerce problems.

Course Learning Outcomes

This course will enable students to understand different horizons of logic pertaining to ins and outs of thoughts, argumentation, beliefs, fallacies, categorical syllogism, ambiguities and behavioral aspects of developing and evaluating logic.