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Critical Thinking 12 Aristotelian Logic and Venn Diagrams

Critical Thinking 12 Aristotelian Logic and Venn Diagrams

This chapter focused on the logical forms of arguments in Aristotle's class logic. For deductive arguments involving class relationships, Venn-Euler diagramming is a useful picture method for assessing validity or invalidity. The method is applied to an argument by attempting to discover a counterexample to the argument. If one is found, the argument is deductively invalid. But if none can be found, then the argument is valid....

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