| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) |
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digital optical rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
| Series |
Great Courses: Philosophy. Modern Philosophy |
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Great courses (DVD)
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| Note |
24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture. |
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"Course No. 4215 |
| Bibliography |
Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233). |
| Contents |
Disc 1: Why study 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. |
| Performer |
Presenter, Dr. Steven Gimbel, professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College. |
| Subject |
Logic -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Filmed lectures.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781629972671 |
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1629972673 |
| Music No. |
ID4215A-01 The Teaching Company |
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