Introduction To Logical Thinking Lecture Summary

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Although lecture notes were given, I further refined these notes and removed all the extra info. Lectures include: Lecture 2: Nonrational forms of persuasion and barriers to logical thinking Lecture 3: Clarifying the ground rules Lecture 4: The double-edged sword of language: friend and enemy Lecture 5: Identifying, analysing and casting (diagramming) Lecture 6: Two types of argument and their role in science: Deduction and induction Lecture 7: Evaluating arguments (Part 1): Concepts of truth, validity, soundness & cogency. Formal fallacies (structural errors)