Logic and Reasoning II

Class Goals (All Three Courses):

An understanding of logic is likely to benefit students in literally any conceivable endeavor as its praxis is taking a methodical approach to the way that we think and distinguishing good thinking from bad thinking.

The purpose of the Logic and Reasoning Program (Courses I to III) is to teach students to be able to take a plain language argument and translate it into a mathematical language which can be analyzed and proven or disproven. When you go from one form of logic language to another you gain or lose certain things.

Our Complete Logic program (Three 10 week courses) covers:

• Logical Fallacies (“Bad thinking”)
• Syllogistic Logic (Truth Tables and Venn diagrams)
• Truth Functional Logic (Predicate Logic — If/Then Statements)
• Evidence, Proofs, and Conclusions
• Tools for finding invalid arguments
• Arguing against valid arguments

For the Spring :

• We’ll pick up with Syllogistic Logic and make our way through to…
• Evidence, Proofs, and Conclusions

The Spring Program is 10 Weeks, beginning on Tuesday Feb 28 going every Tuesday through Mar 28, then every Tuesday from Apr 18 through May 1, 8, 15.  From 1:00pm to 2:15pm. Ages 10-17 (~Grades 5 to 11).

Mr. Fox received his Bachelors in Political Theory with a Philosophy Minor at BYU, and his Juris Doctorate from William and Mary Law School. Mr. Fox has had a wide ranging career ranging from corporate law to sales to K-12 education. He currently works as an intelligence analyst, is the father of three grown daughters, and two grandchildren, and currently lives with his wife in Leesburg.