Dr Tom Kerns

 

 

Your first logic assignment: hurley2.1

Language, meanings, value claims and fact claims,
and vagueness and ambiguity

This assignment is due to be completed by: Friday October 2nd

This exercise will be available from: Oct 1st to Oct 31st

In this assignment you will learn:

• that language has multiple functions, what several of those functions are and the functions on which logic will primarily focus
• the difference between cognitive and emotive meanings
• the difference between
  • vague expressions, in which the meaning is hazy, obscure or imprecise, and
  • ambiguous expressions, in which the expression may have more than one distinctly different meaning

Read

Read chapter 2.1 of our text, Patrick Hurley’s A Concise Introduction to Logic, Tenth edition, pp 74-78

Optional Learning Aids

Section 2.1 of the Learning Logic program, available either on the CD that came with your Hurley book, or on iLrn.

Exercises

• Login to iLrn
• Navigate to the assignment titled hurley2.1
• Open that assignment and do the exercises
• You may re-do the exercises a second time if you like, and a third time, but three times is the limit.
• iLrn will record the score of the final time you did the assignment