Logic I

COURSE OUTLINE of LOGIC 1

 

College	ICAS
Degree	M.A.
Course Title	Logic I
Course Code
Status
Level	Postgraduate
Credit Hours
Contact Hours
Pre-requisites(if any)	–
Co-requisites(if any)	–
Teaching Methodology	The course will start by narration in such a way that the students do not study logic in an isolated world or in a backward way but in the way that they must know logic in our own age along with its problems and criticism.  Bringing up actual and contemporary issues, the course will be enriched by daily life examples and illustration
Method of Evaluation
Lecturer
Semester Offered
Course Objectives	The students can understand the purpose why they study logic The students can describe the subject matters of logic, particularly traditional logic The students are able to explain the division of knowledge into conception (tasawwur) and assent (tasdiq) The students know the way of making definition of terms The students know the kinds of proposition along with the laws of opposition
Learning Outcomes
Course Synopsis (course description)	This course is presented to introduce the importance, definition, subject matters, history, scope, and benefits of logic for scientific enterprise and life of human being in general.

 

WEEKLY PLANNER, TOPICS AND READINGS

Week	Topics	Description of the Topics	Recommended Readings
1	Introduction	–         The narration of the importance of logic-         The explanation of the definition, subject matters, and scope of logic –         The narration of the purpose and benefits of studying logic –         The narration of history of logic, its development up to now, the types of logic (traditional/formal logic, symbolic logic, propositional logic) –         The overview and clarification of criticism of universal principles of logic
2	Fundamental laws of thought and the applications	–         The elaborate explanation on three fundamental and universal laws of thought of human being (Prima Principia): The Principle of Identity, The Principle of Non-Contradiction, and The Principle of Excluded Middle-         The exposition of the role and function of logic in human knowledge (Sciences, Philosophy, Religion) –         Philosophical reflection on thinking –         Thinking and reasoning (cognitive psychological approach)
3	Conceptions, Assents, and Inferences	–         The description of three subject mattes of logic: conception (tasawwur), assent (tasdiq), and inference (istidlal), which respectively related to study of terms and definition, proposition, and argument (hujjah).-         The description of the meaning of knowledge –         The division of knowledge into knowledge by presence and knowledge by correspondence –         The division of knowledge by correspondence into conception and assent –         The delineation of the process of intellection of human mind –         The explanation of abstraction (tajrid) and universalisation (ta’mim) –         The exposition of assent –         The exposition of argument along with its types (syllogism, induction, analogy)
4	Terms and Definition	–         The analysis of words (expressions) and terms along with its kind, classification (univocal, equivocal, analogue; single-composite, connotation-denotation, particular-universal, etc)-         The explanation of the predication and categories –         The exposition for modes of relation (nisab al-arba’ah) and the five universal terms (kulliyat al-khamsah) –         The explanation the way of making definition along with its kinds and levels
5	Proposition	–         The analysis of proposition (a discussion on dispute of the number of components of proposition: three or four (subject, predicate, relation and judgment)-         The delineation of the differences of categorical proposition (qadiyah hamliyyah) and hypothetical proposition (qadiyah shartiyyah) along with their kinds respectively –         The explanation of the traditional square of opposition along with its laws –         The exposition of some immediate inferences from single proposition
6	Inferences	–         The description and explanation of types of reasoning as well the nature and ways of inferences-         The explanation of some kinds of immediate inferences (conversion, obversion, contraposition) –         The exposition of mediate inferences
7	Argument	–         The description and explanation of types of argument (deduction, induction and analogy)-         The explanation of syllogism as a most famous type of deductive reasoning –         The exposition of two types of syllogism (categorical and hypothetical) –         The delineation of inductive reasoning –         The explanation of analogy
8	Five Forms of Syllogism	–         The description and explanation on the five forms of syllogism (Sina’at Al-Khamsah): demonstration, dialectic, rhetoric, poetry, sophistry-         The explanation of the characteristics of demonstration as the most reliable form of argument –         The explanation of the characteristics of dialectic (jadal) –         The explanation of the characteristics of rhetoric (khutbah) –         The explanation of the characteristics of poetry (shi’r) –         The explanation of the characteristics of sophistry (mughalatah) as the fallacious syllogism
9	Propositional Logic	–         The description and explanation propositional logic as a form of symbolic logic-         The explanation of five logical function of propositional logic (negation, conjunction, disjunction, implication, equivalence) –         The delineation of the truth functions along with the truth tables –         The explanation a natural deduction in propositional logic
10	Modal Logic	–         The description and explanation of the matters and modes of proposition as a subject matter of modal logic-         The explanation of modal logic as a kind of logic which is closely related to the issues of metaphysics –         The description of three modalities of proposition: necessity, possibility and impossibility –         The explanation of the meaning of necessity and possibility –  The explanation of the differences of possibility and probability
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