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Aspects
of Language: language conventions, speech acts, and conversational
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Theory of Arguments: their status as attempts at persuasion.
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3
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Logical Arguments: propositional and categorical logic.
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4
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The Structure of Argument: argument diagrams.
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5
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Fallacies
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6
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Semantics and Rhetoric
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7
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Quiz #1: Testing material from lectures 3, 4, 5, 6.
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8
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Inductive Arguments: analogy, inference to best
explanation, and inductive generalisation
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9
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Statistical arguments: inductive generalisation and
particularisation; problems with numbers
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10
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Explanations: causal generalisations, the hypothetico-deductive
method, Mill's methods.
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11
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Evaluating Explanations: fallacies of causal reasoning, criticism
of theories.
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12
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Quiz #2: Testing material from lectures 9, 10, 11, 12
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