Introduction to Logic

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Phillbert Cheng

6 LESSONS

Logic can illuminate the path to truth and understanding. This course will introduce students to Formal Logic as a tool for discourse and explore how it influences and impacts our day-to-day lives.

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The Rules of Reason

Logic informs how we engage with the world

FOUNDATION

Explore the principles and practices of formal logic. Emphasizing clear thinking and constructing sound arguments, this course will equip students with tools to use both academically and in daily life.

REASON

Logic is the training of reason itself. It studies the principles around consistent and cogent thinking. Because reason underlies all the other arts it has been called, "the art of thinking."

REFLECTION

Formal logic deals with the proper arrangement, ordering, and form of the argument itself, regardless of the truth of the premises. It governs how we engage and situate ourselves in the world.

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Logic can illuminate the path to truth and understanding. More than just a tool for scholarly discourse, it actually governs how we engage, situate, and negotiate our way through the world.

Course curriculum

1. Logic and Its Significance
2. The First Act of the Mind
3. Beings of Nature and Beings of Reason
4. Concrete and Abstract Concepts, and Collective and Divisive Concepts
5. Predication and the Predicables I
6. Predication and the Predicables II: Difference and Property
7. Predication and the Predicables III: Accident

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8 lessons
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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Phillbert Cheng

Dr. Phill Cheng is a scholar of ancient and late antique philosophy. His research interests include Aristotelianism, Platonism and Thomism, and the philosophy of education. At Zaytuna College, he has taught Material Logic, Formal Logic, and Philosophy. Dr. Cheng received his BA in Philosophy from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2005 and his MA in Philosophy from Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in 2008. He received his PhD from the Graduate Theological Union.

His PhD thesis, titled “Power, Likeness, and Unlikeness in Proclus Diodochus and Dionysius the Areopagite,” undertakes a fresh analysis of late Neoplatonic and Dionysian henology in examining how power, likeness, and unlikeness figure within Dionysius’s conception of creatures as finite and composite images of the infinite and simple Creator.

Dr. Cheng is proficient in Latin, Attic Greek, and Late Antique Greek. Dr. Cheng joined the faculty of Zaytuna College in Fall 2017.