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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

Unit 4 Logic and Other Disciplines - Logic and Science: Hypothetico -
models of

explanations - Covering Law model - mathematics and logic

Unit 5 Logic and Literature

Unit 6 Logic and Social sciences

References

1. Grayling, A.C. The History of Philosophy, Penguin, 2019.
2. Browning, W.R.F. A Dictionary of the Bible, Oxford University Press,
2009.
3. John Bowker, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions,

Oxford University Press,2000.
4. Basheer, Vaikkam Muhammad. “Oru Manushyan.”Sampoorna

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