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Through the Looking Glass
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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
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Monday, January 17, 2000
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The Logician
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Topics |
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Sorites Revisited |
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Definitions: Sorites, Enthymeme, Syllogism |
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Examples from Dodgson |
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Decomposing Sorites into Syllogisms |
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Categorical Syllogisms |
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Categorical Propositions |
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Representing Categorical Assertions Using Venn Diagrams |
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Testing Categorical Syllogisms Using Venn Diagrams |
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Assignment |
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Dodgson, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"
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Begin work on Profile of Dodgson as Children's Author.
A two page version is due Wednesday, January 19; the final verison
will be due Wednesday, January 26.
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