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Anukambadasakam, Karuna - Budha

Unit 3 Emancipation. Ubuntu/ Fraternal Love

Unit 4 Ahimsa/ Nonviolence in Different Traditions. Equality

Unit 5 Basheer’s short story, “Oru Manushyan”.

Unit 6 Human as species- Jathilakshanam, Jatinirnayam _ Environmental concerns: Gandhi,

Thoreau, Deep Ecology

BLOCK 2: Logic, Language and Other disciplines

Unit 1 A very brief history of logic: traditional logic and symbolic logic -

What is logic? Definitions - process of reasoning - inductive, deductive and

abductive reasoning- Propositions and arguments - recognising arguments.

Truth and validity - Fallacies: Formal and informal fallacies - Classification of fallacies:

Fallacies of relevance, defective induction, presumption and ambiguity.

Unit 2 Fundamentals of Traditional Logic and Symbolic Logic - Categorical Propositions:

The four kinds of categorical propositions - Quality, quantity and distribution -

Standard form - The traditional square of opposition - Categorical Syllogisms:

Standard form - Rules and fallacies - Venn diagram to test the Validity - Logical

connectives: symbols for conjunction, negation, disjunction, material implication and

equivalence- Logical paradoxes: Liar’s paradox

Unit 3 Language and Logic - The basic functions of language: Informative - Expressive -

Directive – Ceremonial Performative - Emotively neutral language -What are definitions
- Kinds of definitions: Stipulative - Lexical – Precising - Theoretical - Persuasive -

Intension and extension

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