Logic: Basic Propositions (WritePhilosophy Quiz)
Test your skills at formalising arguments by trying your hand at this quiz. Can you identify which sentences have which basic propositional forms?
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Logic: Compound Propositions (WritePhilosophy Quiz)
This quiz will test your ability to formalise more complex sentences into propositional form. You should try this after you’re confident in formalising basic propositions.
Festive Fallacies: When the snowman brings the snow
When the nights are long and the days short, there is some solace in the familiarity of classic Christmas songs. But stuffed with pigs-in-blankets and addled on mulled wine, festive pop lyricists seem particularly prone to fallacy. What better way, then, to teach errors in reasoning than to dissect these Xmas classics? Humbug!