Just a reminder: The midterm will be held at the beginning of class on Friday, March 12th. It's worth 15% of your overall grade, and will cover everything we've done in class so far:
- definitions of 'logic,' 'reasoning,' and 'argument'
- evaluating arguments
- types of arguments:
-deductive (aim for certainty, are valid/invalid and sound/unsound)
-inductive (generalizing from examples, depend on large, representative samples)
-args about cause/effect (correlation vs. causation)
-abductive (inferences to the best explanation) - the 4 to 6 fallacies covered in class so far
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