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Week 1

Assignment 1

Follow the link from the syllabus and complete study habits inventory, then answer questions on beachboard.

Link: Study Habits Inventory due 1/25/2020
 

Week 2 Assignment 2
  Follow the link from the syllabus and complete study habits inventory, then answer questions on beachboard.

Link: Information Awareness   due 2/1/2020
 

Week 3
 
Optional Extra credit practice test #1 on beachboard due 2/6/2020

First online test due by 2/7/2020

 

Week 4
 
Assignment 3
Complete the 1st inferences quiz on beachboard. 
due 2/11/2020


Optional Extra credit practice test #2 on beachboard
due 2/14/2020

Second online test due 2/15/2020

 

Week 5
 
Assignment 4
Complete the 2nd inferences quiz on beachboard. 
due 2/18/2020
  
Week 6
Practice Problems 
 
Assignment 5 part 1 due in class 2/24/2020
Link: Arguments homework

PDF Link: Arguments homework
 
1.1 
Section I: 2, 21, Section II: 8, 
Section IV: 1, 3, 7
1.1 
Section I: 5

1.2 
Section I: 2, Section V: 4

1 .2
Section I: 30

 

 
True/False Questions
 
 
A single statement can be an argument.  ________
Statements have truth values, but not probabilities. ________
An argument can be valid but unsound. ________
Inductive arguments are always valid. ________
Validity comes in degrees. ________
Cogent arguments are strong inductive arguments with true premises.
________
Indicator words and conditionals can signal the presence of an argument in a passage.
________

 

Week 6
Practice Problems 
 
Assignment 5 part 2 due in class 2/26/2020
Link: Arguments homework

PDF Link: Arguments homework
 

1.3

Section I: 17, Section III: 3, 6 

 

1.3

Section I: #5
 

1.4 
Section I: 6, Section II: 3

Section V: 1, 7

 

1.4

Section I: #9

 

 
True/False Questions
 
 
Arguments in standard form have all of their premises first. ________
Statements have truth values, but not probabilities. ________
An argument can be valid but unsound. ________
Inductive arguments are always valid. ________
Validity comes in degrees. ________
Cogent arguments are strong inductive arguments with true premises.
________
Logical indicator words help both to identify arguments in passages and to put arguments in standard form.
________

 

Week 6

 

Optional Review Session for Test #3 10-12 Friday 2/28/2020 in Room
Optional Beachboard Extra Credit Practice Test due by 8pm 2/28/2020

Extra Counterexample Examples

 

 

Week 7
Practice Problems 
 
Optional Extra Credit Practice Test due in class by 3/2/2020
Extra Credit Practice Test
Test #3 in class last 45 minutes  3/4/20
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Optional Extra Credit Exercise due by 3/10/2020
EC Giving Back Through Charity Political Action

Assignment 6
due in class by 10/11/2018
Definitions homework
2.1                                                         
Section II: # 2, 9, Section III: #3
2.1
Section III: #20
2.2
Section I: #1 graceful dancer, not only, tallest man on the squad, mountain top, between, since
Section I: #3 first two in each column                   

Section II: # 7, 8, 9
2.2
Section I: #4b
2.3
Section I: # 3, 6
Section II: #5
2.3
Section I: #8
  Answer the following true/false questions based upon the lecture and readings.
1.) When our understanding of a word or phrase leaves it unclear at to whether it applies to a situation, then the word is said to be vague. ________
2.) Definitions are the same things as concepts. ________
3.) Concepts promote efficient cognition because they allow us to think of objects, properties, event, and relations using only a small, but highly relevant amount of information. ________
4.) Humans show typicality effects in recognizing objects. ________
5.) Typicality effects are consistent with equating concepts with definitions. ________
6.) Definitions typically do not capture the sorts of meaning ambiguities discussed in Hurley’s chapter 2. ________

 

Week 8 Assignment 7
Complete Beachboard quiz called "fallacies hwk" 
Due 3/16/2020
 
Week 10
 
Assignment 8 due 3/24/2020
Complete Beachboard quiz called "2nd fallacies hwk" 

 

Informal Fallacies 2nd Lecture Video, Informal Fallacies 3rd Lecture Video

Optional Extra Credit Beachboard Quiz called "Test 4 ec" due by 3/25/2020

Optional 2nd Extra Credit Practice Test Due by 3/25/2020

 

Test #4 Posted on 3/25/2020 Due by 3/26/2020

Spring Break  
Week 11

Assignment 9 due 4/8/2020

1st Propositional Logic Homework

 

 
Week 12

Assignment 10 due 4/13/2020

2nd Propositional Logic Homework

Optional Extra Credit Beachboard Quiz called "Test 5 ec"
Due 4/15/2020

 

2nd Optional Extra Credit Practice test #5 due 4/17/2020

Link To Truth Table Playlist
Link To Propositional Logic Translation Playlist
 

Week 13
 

Test #5 Posted 4/20/2020 due by 4/21/2020
 

Assignment 11 due 4/26/2020
Probability Homework Due

 
   
Week 14
 

Assignment 12 due 5/8/2020
Statistics and Heuristics Homework Due

 

Week 15 1st Extra Credit Beachboard Quiz called "Test 6 ec"
Due 5/
9/2020
 

2nd Extra Credit Practice test #6 due 5/10/2020
 

Link to Probability problems Playlist