Course aims:

This course is designed to introduce students to various topics in techniques and methods of logic that they will encounter in their law activity. The concepts are illustrated with actual examples from the specialized literature.
Exercises are designed to encourage the student to begin thinking about logic within a theoretical context. In this course, the students will learn the basic terminology and concepts of judicial logic.
It will be developed students' ability to elaborate propositions, logical reasoning and analysis on the material of knowledge with which it operates. Another aim is training the students in logical thinking, coherent and consistent on issues of their profession.

Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

1. Scope and logic problems 2. Questions of analytical thinking 3. Questions guidance and questions that the phrase "including any" 4. Questions which require to identify what must be true 5. Conditional statements 6. Questions about the text as a whole - the main idea, the main purpose, organizing text 7. Questions about what the text says or suggests or requires use context to clarify meaning 8. Questions about how the context in which the author says, that involving the recognition of patterns or analogous traits in different factual contexts 9. Questions about the author's attitude or additional information about the meaning 10. Necessary conditions and sufficient conditions 11. Understanding the impact of the additional information in the context of logical thinking questions 12-13 Assumptions and principles in the context of logical thinking questions 14. Errors of argument in the context of logical thinking questions

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

Modelling and solving some medium complexity level problems, using the mathematical and low knoweledges.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper 50%; mid-term test 30%; seminar activities 20%.

Recommended reading:

• John Pollock, Logic: An Introduction to the Formal Study of Reasoning (https://www.dropbox.com/s/ubm08dk9ro8zeb0/Pollock1969Logic%20An%20Introduction%20to%20the%20Formal%20Study%20of%20Reasoning%20copy.pdf?dl=0).
• Pollock, J. L. Technical Methods in Philosophy. Westview, Boulder, Col., 1990.
• Sainsbury, M. Logical Forms: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Blackwell, Oxford, 2001
• Bangs L. Tapscott. Elementary Applied Symbolic Logic, (1976)