Course Description: Traditional Logic I: Formal Logic
Course Syllabus:
| Date | Lesson | Exercises /Readings |
Concepts Covered |
| 09/05/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Martin Cothran: "Introduction" | All exercises | Overview of Traditional Logic |
| 09/12/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 1 | All exercises | Simple
Apprehension 1. Sense impression 2. Mental Image 3. Concept |
| 09/19/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 2 | All exercises | Comprehension and Extension |
| 09/26/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 3 | All exercises | Signification and Supposition |
| 10/03/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 4 | All exercises | What is Judgment? |
| 10/10/05 | FALL BREAK | NO ASSIGNMENT | |
| 10/17/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 5 | All exercises | The Four Statements of Logic |
| 10/24/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapters 6-7 | All exercises | Contradictory, Contrary, Subcontrary, and Subalternate Statements |
| 10/31/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 8 | All exercises | Distribution of Terms |
| 11/07/05 (Last day of 1st quarter) | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 9 | All exercises | Conversion, Obversion and Contraposition of Statements |
| 11/14/05 (First day of 2nd quarter) | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 10 | All exercises | Deductive Inference |
| 11/21/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapter 11 | All exercises | Terminological Rules of Validity |
| 11/28/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapters 12-13 | All
exercises |
Quantitative Rules of Validity |
| 12/05/05 | Traditional Logic, Book I, Cothran: Chapters 14 | All
exercises |
Review |
| 12/12/05 (last day before Christmas break) | MIDTERM
Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 1 |
All exercises | Figure in Syllogisms |
| 12/19/05 | CHRISTMAS BREAK | ||
| 12/26/05 | CHRISTMAS BREAK | ||
| 01/02/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 2 | All exercises | Mood in Syllogisms |
| 01/09/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 3 | All exercises | Reduction of Syllogisms to the First Figure |
| 01/16/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 4 | Days 1 & 2 Exercises | Indirect Reduction of Syllogisms |
| 01/23/06 (Last day of 2nd quarter) | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 4 | Days 3 & 4 Exercises | Indirect Reduction of Syllogisms |
| 01/30/06 (1st day of 3rd quarter) | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 5 | All Exercises | Translating ordinary statements into logical statements |
| 02/06/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 6 | All Exercises; Case Study | Enthymemes |
| 02/13/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 7 | All Exercises; Case Study | Conditional Syllogisms |
| 02/20/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 8 | All Exercises; Case Study | Disjunctive Syllogisms |
| 02/27/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 9 | All Exercises; Case Study | Conjunctive Syllogisms |
| 03/06/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 10 | All Exercises; Case Study | Polysyllogisms & Aristotelian Sorites |
| 03/13/06 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 03/20/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 11 | All Exercises | Goclenian Sorites |
| 03/27/06 (Last day of 3rd quarter) | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 11 | All Exercises; Case Study | Conditional Sorites |
| 04/03/06 (1st day of 4th quarter) | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 12 | All Exercises; Case Study | Epicheirema |
| 04/10/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 13 | Day 1 & 2 Exercises | The Dilemma |
| 04/17/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 13 | Days 3 & 4 Exercises | The Dilemma |
| 04/24/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 14 | All Exercises; Case Study | The Oblique Syllogism |
| 05/01/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 15 | Days 1-2 Exercises | Review |
| 05/08/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 15 | Day 3 Exercises | Review |
| 05/15/06 | Traditional Logic, Book II, Cothran: Chapter 15 | Day 4 Exercises | Review |
| 05/22/06 | FINAL EXAM |