Course: Basis of Logic

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Course title Basis of Logic
Course code KPF/B003
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Peroutka David, ThLic. Ph.D.
Course content
(1) Logic as a discipline (2) Introduction to the logic of Aristotle (3) Concept, definition (4) Propositions and their relations (5) Selected problems of semantics (6) Syllogism (7) Venn diagrams (8) Megarian-Stoic logic (9) Scholasticism and logic (10) Modern notation; logical operators (11) Propositional calculus (12) Forms of the truth-table method (13) Predicate (quantificational) calculus

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
Student acquaints with basic notions of logic and logical semantics; and also with the history of logic. He/she gets some skill in formal verification of arguments: In the field of propositional calculus we use the truth tables; in predicate calculus, namely syllogistics, the diagram method is employed.
Student acquaints with main topics of logic and with contemporary methodology of this discipline. He/she gets some skill in formal verification of arguments.
Prerequisites
Special preconditions are not required.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
A test has two parts: (i) examples -solutions of Aristotelian syllogisms, propositional logic, predicate logic; (ii) theory - the simple questions of history and theory of logic.
Recommended literature
  • Cmorej P. Úvod do logické syntaxe a sémantiky. Praha, 2002. ISBN 80-7254-294-X.
  • Novák L., Dvořák P. Úvod do logiky aristotelské tradice. České Budějovice, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7040-959-6.
  • Sochor A. Logika pro všechny ochotné myslet. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80-246-1959-0.
  • Sousedík, P. Logika pro studenty humanitních oborů. Praha, 2001. ISBN 80-7021-509-7.


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