The exercises are designed to require some thought beyond the rote application of the principles essayed in the lecture notes.

In most cases, formulating possible responses to the questions requires conditional answers which depend upon specific simplifying assumptions.

Even so, most, if not all, of the problems should be answerable on the basis of the topics covered in the course topics in logic.

Links to Homework  Exercises in PDF…
The Structure of Arguments

• Statements and Nonstatements (PDF) 
  Exercises based on the simplifying  definition of "statement" as "a sentence with a truth value which is either verifiable or falsifiable in principle.
  
• Arguments, Level 1 (PDF)
  Exercises designed for practice in diagramming one premiss arguments.
  
• Arguments, Level 2 (PDF)
  Exercises designed for practice in diagramming arguments with more than one premiss.
  
• Arguments, Level 3 (PDF)
  Exercises designed for practice in diagramming complex arguments.
  
• Arguments and Nonarguments (PDF) 
  Exercises designed for practice in distinguishing arguments from nonarguments.
  Answers (PDF)
  
• Deduction and Induction (PDF)
  Exercises designed to practice distinguishing between deductive and inductive arguments.
  Answers (PDF)

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