Pre-requisite: Nil Introduction: nature and scope; basic concepts: truth and validity, arguments, premises; language: words and meanings, intention and extension of terms, definitional techniques; propositions: components, quality, quantity and distribution; immediate inferences: conversion, obversion, square of opposition; mediate inferences: categorical syllogisms – form, mood, figure, rules of inference; hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms; propositional logic: symbols and translation, truth functions, truth tables for arguments; inductive reasoning; fallacies: formal, informal; philosophy and critical thinking: Indian and western
Texts:
1. L. Vaughn, The Power of Critical Thinking, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
2. P. J. Hurley, A Concise Introduction to Logic, London: Wadsworth, 2000.
Reference:
1. I. M. Copi, Introduction to Logic, New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India, 2004.
