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SUMMARY:Aristotelian Logic for Engineers - Dr Eric Rees 
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CONTACT:Vanessa Blake
DESCRIPTION:The legendary Greek philosopher Aristotle observed that the va
 lidity of an argument can be determined by its structure instead of its co
 ntent. His classic example was the ‘syllogism’: All men are mortal\; S
 ocrates is a man\; therefore\, Socrates is mortal. Given the structure of 
 this argument\, if the premises are true then the conclusion is necessaril
 y also true. Aristotle’s logic became a state of the art tool in philoso
 phy and the sciences for over two thousand years. Equally influential is h
 is survey of misleading arguments – fortunately for us in the 21st centu
 ry\, these are now expressed in the form of captioned images which we revi
 ew in this talk.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 3\, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotec
 hnology\, West Cambridge Site
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