Formal v. Informal logic
The type of reasoning most commonly used in Formal Logic
What is Deductive reasoning?
Name the kind of syllogism the following argument is in,
"If I want to succeed at soccer, I should practice dribbling
I want to succeed at soccer
Therefore, I should practice dribbling"
What is a propositional syllogism?
This individual is the founder of Categorical/Deductive logic.
Who is Aristotle?
The Art and Science of Reasoning
What is Logic?
This is the first act of the mind. This is when a person categorizes something.
What is simple Apprehension?
The type of Reasoning most commonly used in Informal logic
What is Inductive logic?
This type of logic deals with one concrete idea at a time
What is categorical logic?
This individual stated the need for a "Razor" to find the simplest argument that would work to solve the problem.
Who is William Ockham?
What are two premises and a conclusion?
This is the second act of the mind. This is when someone relates two terms.
What is judgement?
This term means an argument flows correctly and that the conclusion is true, if the premises are true.
What is Valid?
Categorical logic looks at this as closely as if you were looking through a microscope.
What is human thought?
This individual used logic to prove the existence of God
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
This type of logic is made up of terms and looks at the relationship between those terms
What is categorical logic?
This is the third act of the mind. This is when an individual makes a claim based on previous connections between terms.
What is inference?
Logic is the art and science of reasoning. Art and Science are connected to these types of Logic specifically.
What is Informal (art) and Formal (science)?
Propositional logic looks at ideas at a distance using three types of sentences. Name one of the three.
What are hypotheticals, either-or scenarios, or dilemmas?
This guy created the scientific method and rejected deductive logic due to incorrect a priori assumptions.
Who is Francis Bacon?
A sentence with a truth value that affirms or denies a position
What is a proposition?
This is the definition of the acts of the mind.
What is the 3-part process people take when forming an argument?
While informal logic deals with probability, formal logic deals with this.
What is certainty?
Propositional logic can examine multiple scenarios and looks at this.
What is the big picture?
This group of people studied argument and paradoxes that would not fit in Aristotle's logic.
Who are the stoics?
Truths that are already accepted as true
What are A Priori statements?
Each act of the mind corresponds to one of the three building blocks of logic. List the pairings of act and building block.
What are simple apprehension/term, judgement/proposition, inference/argument