Traditional Logic: Formal and Material
$500.00/year
Traditional Logic: Formal and Material
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09/07/2020 - 05/14/2021
Full Year
1.0 credits in Logic
Grades 8-12
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About the course
In Traditional Logic, students learn Aristotelian formal logic and material logic in a 32-week course. Formal logic concerns the structure of proper reasoning and validity. This body of instruction, which includes the identification of formal fallacies, culminates in the study of categorical, hypothetical, and complex syllogisms. Material logic concerns the content of argumentation and the truth of terms and propositions. This block of instruction includes discussions on the Ten Categories, predicables, definition, and division. Students will take weekly online quizzes and quarterly exams. Students will attend two one-hour sessions each week.
Course Objectives:
- To learn how to compose and analyze syllogisms
- To gain an appreciation for and commitment to logical reasoning and its importance in listening, speaking, and reading
- To prepare for instruction in rhetoric
- To cultivate an appetite for learning as a way of life
Texts (tentative):
- Peter Kreeft, Socratic Logic: A Logic Text using Socratic Method (Edition 3.1)