Exam Details

Subject Logic
Paper
Exam / Course M.A. PHILOSOPHY (MAPY)
Department School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date June, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

State and explain the rules and fallacies of Categorical Syllogism.

Describe five kinds of compound propositions with truth-tables in detail.

Explain the salient aspects of the rule of strengthened conditional proof. Construct formal proof for the following argument using the rule of strengthened proof.
v R

Q P

What is Quantification? Give an account of the rules of quantification.

Distinguish between deduction and induction with suitable examples.

Test the validity or invalidity of the following argument by Venn Diagram method.
"Some philosophers are mathematicians; Some scientists are philosophers,
All scientists are mathematicians"

What is fallacy? Distinguish between formal and informal fallacies.

Explain how truth is related to validity.

Explain various classes of terms.

Describe the structure of Disjunctive Syllogism.

Elucidate tautology, contradictory and contingent sentence forms.

Write a note on the role of truth-table in Symbolic Logic.

Construct formal proof for the following argument.
[Qx Rx]



Test the validity or invalidity of the following argument by using truth -table.


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5. Write a short note on any five of the following in about 100 words.

Proposition

Quantity and Quality

Argument form

Argumentum Ad Populum

Invalid Argument

Monadic and Dyadic Models

Fuzzy logic

Bound variable


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