Logic Class Txt. 1-25

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Simple Definition of Logic

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A study of the human person's natural process of thinking.

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Complex Definition of Logic

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The science and the art which can help human beings to become more perfectly clear, correct, critical and consistent in their natural process of thinking at three levels; simply apprehending, judging and reasoning.

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Science

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The intellectual activity of discovering the natural pattern of human thinking.

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Art

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The intellectual activity of making new patterns to facilitate the natural pattern of thinking.

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Simply Apprehending

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The intellectual activity of attaining the essence of something without affirming or denying anything about it.

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Judging

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The intellectual activity of affirming or denying one idea of another idea.

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Reasoning

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The intellectual activity of concluding to a knowledge of some new truth from truths already known.

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Formal Logic

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Reasoning which follows exact rules.

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Informal Logic

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Reasoning which does not follow exact rules

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Material Logic

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Concerned with the truth and the falsity of the premises of an argument

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Material Logic

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Concerned with the truth and the falsity of the premises of an argument, with whether or not the premises of an argument are or are not in harmony with reality

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Inductive Logic

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Dealing with the reasoning which begins with singular instances and proceeds to a universal or general principle.

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Deductive Logic

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Dealing with reasoning that begins with a universal or general principle (truth) and proceeds all the way down to a singular instance.

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Idea

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An abstract impression, which is the product of an act of simple apprehension (apprehending).

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Term

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One word or many words which express a complete thought

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Sign

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That which represents something other than itself to a knowing being.

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natural sign

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A sign determined by nature

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Artificial sign

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A sign determined by human persons either by agreement or usage.