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Title:

An introduction to formal logic [videorecording] / Great Courses ; producer, Alex Houston ; directors, Jonathan D. Leven, Scott Aronoff.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

The Teaching Company,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Subject:

Logic.
Logic.
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.
Educational films.
Filmed lectures.
Nonfiction films.

Other Authors:

Gimbel, Steven, 1968- speaker.
Houston, Alex, producer.
Leven, Jon, director.
Aronoff, Scott, director.
Teaching Company.

Notes:

Presenter, Dr. Steven Gimbel, professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College. 24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture. Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233). "Course No. 4215"

Contents:

Disc 4. Three-valued and fuzzy logic. Introduction to logical concepts ; Informal logic and fallacies ; Fallacies of faulty authority ; Fallacies of cause and effect ; Fallacies of irrelevance -- Disc 2. Inductive reasoning ; Induction in polls and science ; Introduction to formal logic ; Truth-functional logic ; Truth tables ; Truth tables and validity -- Disc 3. Natural deduction ; Logical proofs with equivalencies ; Conditional and indirect proofs ; First-order predicate logic ; Validity in first-order predicate logic ; Demonstrating invalidity -- Disc 4. Relational logic ; Introducing logical identity ; Logic and mathematics ; Proof and paradox ; Modal logic ; Three-valued and fuzzy logic.

Series:

Great Courses: Philosophy. Modern Philosophy.

ISBN:

1629972673
9781629972671

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946148844

Locations:

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)