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When does an Irrelevant Thesis change to a supporting point or secondary gain? In example 1 the speaker says they should have a football program because there is data that shows that students who participate in sports programs perform better academically. Let's take as a given that the data the speaker possesses is accurate. If the goal of the school is to have students do well academically and a sports program helps accomplish that, where is the fallacy? Perhaps in being to specific as to the sport?
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We probably all have a sense of what a fallacy is--but how might we describe what a fallacy is with precision? Your thoughts after starting this studying the fallacies or beginning The Logical Fallacies course?
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At our school we have taught two years of logic at least since I began teaching back in 2010. I've taught the first year course (8th grade), which covers categorical logic and informal fallacies, three times and this year I'm teaching the second year course (propositional logic, with a unit on digital logic). Our plan is to combine the two courses into one and teach it in the 9th grade. I'm curious to know how other schools and teachers have taught formal logic in their schools: Do you do it in one year or two, and what is the rationale? Do you teach categorical and propositional, or only one, or neither; and what is the rationale? To what age group do you teach formal logic and why?
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For those of you have started taking the course on formal logic or have studied it previously--what would you say that formal logic is?
