List of Exercises

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  1. Wason Selection Task Exercise [pdf]
  2. Argument or non-argument? [pdf]
  3. Deductive or inductive? [pdf]
  4. Finding real arguments [pdf]
  5. Recognizing Connectives [pdf]
  6. Simple and Complex [pdf]
  7. Wffs vs. non-wffs [pdf]
  8. Creating your own formal system [pdf]
  9. The main operator [pdf]
  10. Describing wffs in English [pdf]
  11. Non truth-functional "and"exercise [pdf]
  12. Showing that "hopes that" is non-truth functional [exemplary answer]
  13. Polish Notation [pdf]
  14. Basic truth tables [pdf]
  15. Determine the truth value of wffs [pdf]
  16. More challenging truth-table problems. [pdf]
  17. Complete Truth-table Exercise [pdf]
  18. Translation in PL - Check your answers [pdf]
  19. More Translation in PL - Check your answers [pdf]
  20. Even More Translation into PL - Check your answers [pdf]
  21. Translating Necessary and Sufficient Conditions - Check your answers [pdf]
  22. Translating from PL to English [pdf]
  23. Logical Status I [pdf]
  24. Logical Status II [pdf]
  25. Logical Equivalence [pdf]
  26. Translate and Test for Validity
  27. Validity and the Conditional [pdf]
  28. Gappy Truth Tables I [pdf]
  29. Semantic Concepts
  30. Truth Trees [pdf]
  31. Truth Tree Tests for Validity [pdf]
  32. Another Truth-tree Test for Logical Equivalence
  33. Stating Truth-Tree Rules for non-PL Operators [pdf]
  34. Translate and Test for Validity [pdf]
  35. Truth Functional Completeness Essay [pdf]
  36. Sheffer Stroke Exercise (extra credit)
  37. Practice Exam #1 [pdf]
  38. Rules of Inference I
  39. Rules of Inference II
  40. Rules of Inference III
  41. Rules of Inference IV
  42. Proofs I - [pdf] Rules of Inference Proofs
  43. Proofs II - [pdf] Proofs with Equivalence Rules
  44. Proofs III [pdf] Proving Theorems
  45. Proofs IV [pdf] Conditional and Indirect Proof
  46. Proofs V [pdf] More practice!
  47. PL Proof Form - Use with any of the proof exercises above.
  48. Translation, Validity and Proof in PL  [pdf]
  49. Metatheoretic Consistency and Completeness
  50. Recognizing Singular Propositions
  51. Translating Singular Propositions
  52. Singular or Quantified?
  53. Negations of simple existential wffs
  54. Quantified Negations and Negations of Quantified wffs
  55. Translating Simple Quantified Sentences
  56. Practice Exam #2
  57. Translating Truth-functional Propositions in QL - Check your answers
  58. Mixed Quantification Translation - Selected Answers
  59. Recognizing Categorical Propositions
  60. Recognizing and rewriting Categorical Propositions
  61. Contraries and Subcontraries
  62. Testing Syllogisms for Validity 1
  63. Testing Syllogisms for Validity 2
  64. Testing Syllogisms for Validity 3
  65. Logically Equivalent Categorical Propositions
  66. Translation in Monadic Predicate Logic I
  67. Translation in Monadic Predicate Logic II
  68. Determining Semantic Properties in QL using the Model Universe Method
  69. Validity in an Empty Domain
  70. Determining Semantic Properties in QL using the Truth-Tree Method
  71. Translate and Test Arguments for Validity
  72. Practice Exam #3
  73. Proving Categorical Quantifier Negation Theorems
  74. Instantiation Rule Exercise
  75. QL Proof Form - Use with any of Proof in QL
  76. Easy Proofs in QL
  77. Harder Proofs in QL 1
  78. Proving Theorems in QL
  79. Easy Polyadic Translation Exercise
  80. Polyadic Translation Exercise I
  81. Translation in Polyadic QL II
  82. Translation of Arguments in Polyadic QL
  83. Truth-trees in Polyadic QL
  84. Undecidability Exercise
  85. Proofs in Polyadic QL
  86. Translation with Identity 1
  87. Translating Numerical Propositions
  88. Superlatives and Exceptives
  89. Definite Descriptions
  90. Properties of Relations
  91. Practice Exam #4 

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