Logic Exam #1 Study Guide

All the items listed on the study guide for Quiz #1 plus:

Definitions

Ch. 4: Background information

Appeal to authority

State the four criteria for expertise

Explain how impairment and expectation affect personal experience

Explain the three ways we fool ourselves

State the six criteria for evaluating the reliability of news coverage.

Ch. 7: Categorical Logic

Identify the quantity, quality, type (A E I O), subject, predicate and copula of categorical statements.

Exercises

Ch. 4: Assess the plausibility of claims and explain your rationale.

Ch. 7: Translate categorical statements into standard form.

Write Venn Diagrams for categorical statements and use them to determine whether categorical statements are equivalent to one another.

Translate categorical syllogisms into standard form (using the terms S, P, and M, and putting the premises in the proper order).

Use Venn Diagrams to determine the validity of categorical syllogisms.