Logic Websites

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You can learn much about logic right off the Internet. The World Wide Web has several excellent sites which teach logic, especially logical fallacies. There is even a newsgroup dedicated to answering people's questions on logic, along with an email loop for the same purpose.

General Logic

·                     Mission: Critical is an award winning introduction to Critical Thinking. This site lays down some basics in recognizing arguments, analyzing arguments, common logical fallacies and non-rational persuasion, Venn diagrams and logic games. http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/main.html

·                     Summit Ministries page on Critical Thinking introduces the subject from the point-of-view of a Christian world-view. It teaches some major concepts and the most important logical fallacies. Go http://www.summit.org/resources.htm

·                     The Logic Classroom - "The Logic Classroom offers you the opportunity to learn logic on your own or to improve your logic skills." Elihu Carranza has designed an excellent web site which introduces categorical syllogisms at a beginner level, and from a Christian perspective. http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/carranza

·                     Logic - "In this review of elementary logic, we'll undertake a broad survey of the major varieties of reasoning that have been examined by logicians of the Western philosophical tradition." http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/

·                     Elementary Logic - This page that reviews Informal Fallacies, and teaches basic Prepositional Logic (Symbolic Logic). Some exercises are given at the end. http://www.utm.edu/departments/artsci/ppr/phil/fieser/logic.htm

·                     Introduction to Logic: a complete text resource on the World Wide Web by Wanent and Costenoble teaches some basic concepts in logic and provides exercises for practice. http://www.hofstra.edu/~matscw/RealWorld/logic/logicintro.html

·                     Catholic Encyclopedia: Logic defines logic in a technical way, and gives the history of logic beginning prior to Aristotle into modern times. The page is written from the viewpoint of Thomas Aquinas' philosophy. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09324a.htm

·                     The Power of Logic is an excellent site developed in conjunction with a logic text by the same name. Power of Logic lets you choose problems in different areas of logic for you to solve. When you complete a page it checks your answers and explains the ones you missed. http://www.poweroflogic.com

·                     Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial is a website of tests designed to help students practice some of the logic they are learning. http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~act/index.html

·                     Deductive & Inductive Arguments has a simple description of deductive and inductive reasoning with common errors in each. http://webpages.shepherd.edu/maustin/rhetoric/deductiv.htm http://webpages.shepherd.edu/maustin/rhetoric/inductiv.htm

·                     Basic Helps for Practical Reasoning is a page describing how to analyze the rational support of a piece of writing. http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~dsulliva/classes/300aframe/reason.html

·                     The newsgroup sci.logic is an active place for logicians amateur, professional and expert. I have had several of my questions answered here.

·                     Elementary Logic teaches many of the major topics covered in Copi and Cohen's Introduction to Logic. Covers: language, some logical fallacies, categorical logic, symbolic logic, inductive and scientific reasoning. This web site also includes an extensive treatment of the history of philosophy and a dictionary of philosophical terms and names. http://www.philosophypages.com/lg

Logical fallacies

·                     SoYouWana.com has a fun web page on several of the most common logical errors. http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/logic/logic.html

·                     Logical Fallacies in Scientific Writing compiles many common errs in reasoning you will find in scientific publications and gives a good explanation for each. http://mason.gmu.edu/~arichar6/logic.htm

·                     Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies gives a very good explanation of all logical fallacies. This site may be the best on the Web. http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/welcome.htm

·                     The Nizdor Project has a guide to many logical fallacies which they use in showing the errors and evil of anti-Semitism and Hitler's Nazi regime. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies

·                     Conversational Terrorism is a page on logical fallacies but takes them one more step by giving many hilarious variants and actual things people do say. A good Christian site. http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html

·                     The Fallacy Zoo is a site on all the traditional fallacies. A man who wants to increase general understanding of fallacies set up this site. He was tired of explaining the fallacies to people over the email. http://www.goodart.org/fallazoo.htm

·                     The Logical Fallacies at dissension.com is one of the most thorough sites there are. Each fallacy is clearly laid out with the origin of the name, how the fallacy is not logical and examples. http://www.dissension.com/logic/logic.html

·                     Logical Fallacies is a short page teaching the major fallacies with examples. http://webpages.shepherd.edu/maustin/rhetoric/fallacies.htm

Christian Logic

·                     Logic in Apologetics - Unbelievers use logic, and we can turn discussions with them around by showing how the their logic is inconsistent, or that it begins with the wrong premises. http://www.carm.org/apologetics/logic.htm

·                     Apologetics Information Ministry by Craig S. Hawkins http://apologeticsinfo.org/papers/logiccoherence.html http://apologeticsinfo.org/papers/logicpostmodern.html

·                     Basic Training for the Christian Mind: Logic, The Right Use of Reason is a brief description of logic and how it is related to God and how it is useful to Christians. http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~sjreeves/cm/logic.html

·                     Critical Thinking and Logic is an article by Doug Wilson on the difference between humanistic critical thinking skills and Christian logic. http://www.home-school.com/Articles/ThinkingAndLogic.html