Philosophy 105 Final Study Guide

I. Be able to symbolize arguments using atomic sentences and the basic sentential connectives (negation, disjunction, conjunction, conditional, biconditional).

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II. Be able to use truth tables to a) determine whether a proposition is a tautology, contradiction, or contingent; b) determine whether or not two or more propositions are logically equivalent; c) determine whether or not an argument is valid.

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III. Be able to construct proofs of arguments using Copi’s Rules of Inference.

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