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Logic for Students of Social Sciences - OINP1P106A

Title:	Logic for Students of Social Sciences
Guaranteed by:	Katedra pedagogiky (41-KPG)
Faculty:	Faculty of Education
Actual:	from 2018
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	2
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (20)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. PhDr. Hana Voňková, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Last update: prof. RNDr. PhDr. Hana Voňková, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

The course introduces students to the basics of the propositional calculus and the predicate logic. Students are also introduced to a classification of fallacies which is then used for text analyses.

Aim of the course -

Last update: prof. RNDr. PhDr. Hana Voňková, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

The goal of the course is that students learn to analyze a validity of arguments using the basics of formal logic and subsequently use it for text analyses.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Martin Čapek Adamec, Ph.D. (05.11.2018)

GENSLER, H. J. Introduction to logic. USA and Canada: Routledge, 2002 (2008)

HODGES, W. Logic: an introduction to elementary logic. Penguin group, 2001.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: prof. RNDr. PhDr. Hana Voňková, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

written test

Syllabus -

Last update: prof. RNDr. PhDr. Hana Voňková, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (29.10.2019)

·         Basic terms - e.g., semiotics, logical consequence and syllogism

·         Propositional calculus - assignment of the true value of a compound proposition, analysis of a validity of an argument, language of a propositional calculus

·         Predicate logic - quantifiers, relationship to the propositional calculus, De Morgan's laws, proving that the argument is invalid using a counterexample

·         Proofs (direct proof, proof by contradiction, induction), Venn diagrams, Necessary and sufficient condition

·         Argumentation, fallacies - use for the text analysis