Week 6: Logic and Reasoning

After this week, you should…

• understand how to identify invalid inference rules (Denying the Antecedant, Affirming the Consequent, Affirming a Disjunct).
• identify simple Boolean equivalences (e.g., De Morgan’s Law)
• discuss some experiments about human reasoning and logic, such as the Wason Seleciton Task.
• come up with examples that demonstrate a mismatch between arguments involving conditionals in English and argumets involving conditionals in propositional logic.

Read this

This section lists the reading that should be completed before/after the weekly lectures.

Lecture 1 (Oct 4:   slides)

Before the first lecture, read the following:

• Valid and Invalid Inference Rules
• Boolean Equivalences
• Reasoning Experiments
• Conditionals

reasoning/conditionals

Lecture 2 (Oct 4:   slides)

Before the second lecture, read the following:

• Reasoning Experiments
• Conditionals
• Beyond Propositional Logic
• First Order Logic

Do this

Problem Set 6 is due Oct 5 at 11:00pm.

Make sure that you have answered all the participation questions for Week 6. You must answer all questions asked during class and all other questions assigned for the week on Tophat.

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