LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lake Ontario, Propositional Calculus, Inductive Reasoning
15 Feb 2018
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Formal features: places groundwork for what you"re allowed to say. Example of logical argumentation: all lakes are wet, lake ontario is a lake, lake ontario is wet . Deductive reasoning: basic premises, something that must follow. Inductive reasoning: examples and from that a person generalizes. Scienti c method: set up hypothesis and test it, typically inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is more common than deductive reasoning. Example: it is raining or martha washed the car . Nasal sounds tend to assimilate in place to a sound that follows, sounds pattern together. Proposition is the meaning of a sentence. We"re going to assume the meaning of a sentence is either true or false. Extension: example, red"s extension is everything red in the world. Propositional logic: theory of how propositions combine to make larger propositions. Entailment example: sarah ate three burgers last night . It entails that sarah also ate two and one burger(s)
