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The Argument Sketch

Chapter 2A (August 23 Notes)

A Failed Performative

Chapter 2B (August 28 Notes)

An unsuccessful conversational act (threatening, intimidating)

A demonstration of the need for the rule of Quantity

A violation of the rule of Relevance

An illustration of the rule of Manner

Chapter 2C, 3A (August 30 Notes)

An inaccurate simile

Comic understatement example

Chapter-3B (September 4 Notes)

An article describing the central importance of critical thinking to academic and later life success.

Chapter 5 (Septermber 11/13 Notes)

Chapter 6A (Notes)

Chapter 6B  (Notes)

Chapter 7A (Notes)

Chapter 7B (Notes)

Inductive Reasoning (Notes)

Explanations (Notes)

Causal Reasoning (Notes)

Chances (Notes)

An Example of a Scam..

Choices (Notes)

Fallacies of Vagueness (Notes)

Fallacies of Ambiguity (Notes)

Fallacies of Relevance and Vacuity (Notes)

Parallel Reasoning (Thomson)

Marquis

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Searle

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