| Date Due | Assignment |
|---|---|
| December 8 | Hand in all previously unsubmitted homework assignments. Final round of extra credit sets also due. |
| december 2 | No new homework. In class, we’ll try our hands at some of problems 1-15 of the System W* Proof Problems. |
| November 30 | Review §2 of Chapter 2 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, as well as Chapter 5, and for homework, do items (a)-(j) in Exercise 1 at the end of Chapter 5 on pp. 84-85. In addition, just for practice, and not as specifically assigned homework, try your hand at any or all of items 1-15 in this list of System W* Proof Problems. |
| November 28 | Review §2 of Chapter 2 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, and read Chapter 5, giving special attention to the description Mates gives on pp. 77-78 of the “standard way” in which we shall give interpretations of L (and, for that matter, of W*). |
| November 24 | Read §2 of Chapter 2 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, study the handout on System WHY? and do these System I proof problems. |
| November 21 | Review §5 of Chapter 2 of Mates’s Elementary Logic and do Exercise 7 at the end of Chapter 2 on p. 42 of Mates. Also, review the derivational apparatus (the rule for axioms and the derivation rules) of System I described in §3 of Chapter 3 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| November 18 | Read §5 of Chapter 2 of Mates’s Elementary Logicif you haven’t already done so, review Chapter 4, and do both parts (a), (c), (e), and (g) of Exercise 10—the “odd-lettered” parts of Exercise 10, as they might be called— and Exercise 11 at the end of Chapter 4 on p. 68 of Mates. |
| November 16 | Read §5 of Chapter 2 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, review Chapter 4, and do parts (b), (d), (f), and (h) of Exercise 10—the “even-lettered” parts of Exercise 10, as they might be called—at the end of Chapter 4 on p. 68 of Mates. |
| November 14 | Read §3 of Chapter 4 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, review Chapter 3 and §§1-2 of Chapter 4, and do Exercises 1 and 3 at the end of Chapter 3 on pp. 51-52 of Mates. |
| November 9 | Read §§1-2 of Chapter 4 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, and review §§1-3 of Chapter 3 as well. |
| November 7 | Read §§1-3 of Chapter 3 of Mates’s Elementary Logic. Do these truth-table and derivation problems. If you missed class on Wednesday, here are two handouts that should show you what you need to do: A Semantics for System W and A Decision Procedure for System W. |
| November 2 | Read §§1-3 of Chapter 3 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| October 31 | Second hour test. Do the problems (not the puzzles) for §7 and §8 on pp. 81-82 and 84-85 of Basic Symbolic Skills. Second round of extra credit sets also due today. |
| October 26 | Once again, review §§7-8 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and continue on the next round of extra credit sets. |
| October 24 | Review §§7-8 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and get to work, if you haven’t already done so, on the next round of extra credit sets. |
| October 19 | Read §§7-8 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problems for §6 (not the puzzles) on p. 76-77 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| October 17 | Review §6 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| October 12 | Read §6 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problems for §5 on p. 69 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| October 10 | Read §5 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problem for §4 on pp. 63-64 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| October 5 | Read §§3-4 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| October 3 | Read §§1-2 of Chapter 2 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problems for § 6 (not the puzzle) on p. 44 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| September 30 | First hour test. First round of extra credit sets due today. |
| September 28 | No class. Friday 1:25 WFF 'N PROOF groups meet today at 1:25 instead. |
| September 26 | Read §6 of Chapter 1 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problems for Part B (not the puzzles) on pp. 37-38 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| September 21 | Read Part B of §5 of Chapter 1 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problems for Part A (not the puzzles) on pp. 36-37 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| September 19 | Read the opening six paragraphs and Part A of §5 of Chapter 1 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problems (not the puzzles) on pp. 21-22 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| September 14 | Read §§3-4 of Chapter 1 of Basic Symbolic Skills, and do the problems (not the puzzles) on pp. 7 and 11 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| September 12 | Read the front matter and §§1-2 of Chapter 1 of Basic Symbolic Skills. |
| September 9 | Review Chapter 1 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, and do Exercise 1 (parts (a) through (l)) on p. 18 of the Mates book. |
| September 7 | Read §§5-6 of Chapter 1 of Mates’s Elementary Logic. Review §§ 1-4. |
| September 2 | Read §4 of Chapter 1 of Mates’s Elementary Logic. Review §§ 1-3. |
| August 31 | Read §§1-3 of Chapter 1 of Mates’s Elementary Logic, and do these homework exercises, which are designed to give you practice in identifying arguments, premises, and conclusions. |
| August 29 | Review the whole of “Arguments and Their Evaluation.” No additional assignment. |
| August 26 | Look over the rest of “Arguments and Their Evaluation.” In class today on the 26th, we’ll be concentrating on any questions you may have about the definitions of evaluative terms. |
| August 24 | Read “Arguments and Their Evaluation,” concentrating on the first two sections (“Definitions of Basic Terms,” and “Definitions of Evaluative Terms,”). |
