Assignment hurley5.2
Using Venn diagrams to determine a syllogism's validity
This assignment is due to be completed by Monday November 2nd
This exercise will be available from Oct 23rd to Nov 4th
In this assignment you will learn:
- What a Venn diagram is
- How to diagram categorical propositions
- How to enter shading for universal propositions
- How to enter X's for particular propositions
- How to diagram a categorical syllogism
- How to determine if a categorical syllogism is valid or not
Read
- Read chapter 5.2 of Hurley’s A Concise Introduction to Logic.
- Optional: Review Hurley pp 196-98 to review the Boolean vs Aristotelian standpoints
Optional Learning Aids
- Strongly recommended: the Learning Logic tutorial on chapter 5.2, explaining Venn diagrams; Learning Logic should have come on a CD with your Hurley text, and it is also available as a learning tool on iLrn
Exercises
- Login to iLrn
- Navigate to the assignment titled hurley5.2
- Open that assignment and do those exercises
- You may re-do the exercises a second time if you like, and a third time, but it won’t allow you to do them more than three times.
- iLrn will record the score you earn on the final time you did the assignment.