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Our first video is a recap of last week's materials.
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We describe the traditional presentation of the syllogisms, and introduce Aristotle's existential assumption, on the basis of which he derives nine more syllogisms. These are not sound in our…
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Using meta-/object-level contrapositions, we can derive all 15 sound syllogisms from Barbara.
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In this video, we label each region in the Venn diagram with a number from 0 to 7. We can then present our justifications and counter-examples by referring to those 8 regions.
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In the last video, we showed a rule is sound using Venn diagrams. In this video, we will again use Venn diagrams to construct counter-examples for unsound rules.
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Given a syllogistic rule, how do we show that it is sound? Here we show that using Venn diagrams.
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This is how Aristotle organised his propositions.
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You have already met Aristotle's universal propositions, universal assertion, "every a is b", and universal denial, "no a is b". The negations of these are his particular…
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Last week we used object-level contraposition to derive four new syllogisms, starting from Barbara. This week we will use meta-level contraposition to derive two more new syllogisms from each of the…
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This is an old recording of Lecture 2, from 2019.
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In this video, we get syllogisms for free! We see how some simple reasoning allows us
to derive three more syllogisms.
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In this video on syllogisms, we introduce the logic of negation.
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In this video on syllogisms, we present a new form of proposition --
universal denial. Introducing negation gives a new syllogism as an
instance of barbara.
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This is the third video on Syllogisms. We use Venn diagrams to show that barbara is sound.
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This is the second video on Syllogisms. We return
to discuss the relationship between Euler and Venn diagrams, and introduce some notation.Having watched this video, you should be able to count…
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This is the first video on Syllogisms. We start by introducing barbara, the simplest classical syllogism, and the
proposition, "all a are b", known as universal affirmation. We briefly
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