Logic What is it?

1. LogicWhat is it?

2. Formal logic is the science of deduction. • It aims to provide systematic means for telling whether or not given conclusions follow from given premises, i.e., whether arguments are valid or not

3. A valid argument is one whose conclusion is true in every case in which all its premises are true.

4. Premise 1: Some cave dwellers use fire. Premise 2: All who use fire have intelligence. Conclusion: Some cave dwellers have intelligence. Valid or not? Valid

5. P1: All geniuses are illogical. P2: Some politicians are illogical. Conclusion: Some politicians are geniuses. Valid or not? Not valid

6. P1: If you overslept, you will be late. P2: You aren’t late. Conclusion: You didn’t oversleep. IF you oversleep, you will be late AND you are not late THEN you didn’t oversleep.

7. P1 P2 . . . Pn C IF P1 and P2 and … Pn THEN C

8. A valid argument does not say that C is true but that C is true if all the premises are true. That is, there are NO counterexamples. P1: Bertil is a professional musician. P2: All professional musicians have pony-tail. Therefore: Bertil has pony-tail.

9. PostulatesAxioms

10. Einstein's Postulates for the Special Theory of Relativity • The laws of physics are the same in all reference frames. • The speed of light through a vacuum (300,000,000 m/s) is constant as observed by any observer, moving or stationary.

11. Euclid's fifth axiom (parallel axiom): For each point P and each line l, there exists at most one line through P parallel to l.

12. Different Geometries • Euclidean: Given a line L and a point P not on L, there is exactly one line passing through P, parallel to L. • Hyperbolic: Given a line L and a point P not on L, there are at least two lines passing through P, parallel to L. • Elliptic: Given a line L and a point P not on L, there are no lines passing through P, parallel to L.

13. Hyperbolic Euclidian Elliptic Sum of the angles:

14. Premises/Postulates/Axioms Conclusion Logic is about how to deduce, on mere form, a valid argument. Valid is a semantic concept. Deduction is a syntactic concept.

15. Logic • Propositional calculus • Quantification theory (predicate logic)

16. Proposition Propositions are expressed, in natural language, in sentences. It is raining. It is snowing. Where is Jack? (NOT a proposition) Propositions are declarative sentences: saying something that is true or false.

17. More examples: Napoleon was German. All men are mortal. Tweety is a robin. Oxygen is an element. Jenkins is a bachelor. No bachelor are married. If it is raining then it is it is snowing. It is not raining. It is raining or it is snowing It is raining and it is snowing.

18. Propositional CALCULUS uses variables for propositions and study the form, not the content (semantics), in order to deduce valid conclusions. If it is raining then it is it is snowing. It is not raining. It is raining or it is snowing It is raining and it is snowing. If A then B not A A or B A and B

19. Compare with mathematics.

20. We shall treat propositions as unanalyzed, thus making no attempt to discern their logical structure. We shall be concerned only with the relations between propositions, and then only insofar as those relations concern truth or falsehood.

21. OR Either you wash the car or you cut the grass. The symbol V (from Latin vel) is used to indicate ‘or’ as in ‘Either A or B’. V is inclusive.

22. Exact definition of V. Lower-case letters ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘r’, etc., are used for propositional variables, just as ‘x’, ‘y’ are numerical variables. p q p Vq F F F F T T T F T T T T

23. ‘Socrates is alive V Plato is alive’ is false. ‘Socrates is alive V Plato is dead’ is true.

24. p q p V q 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1

25. Not: 0 1 1 0

26. AND: Socrates is alive Plato is alive • 0 0 0 • 0 1 0 • 0 0 • 1 1 1

27. T T F T F F T T F F F T T F . . .

28. How is ‘if … then ___’ represented? An ‘if … then ___’ is called a conditional. The proposition replacing ‘…’ is called the antecedent,and that replacing the ‘___’ is called the consequent. ‘if it isn’t raining, then he is at game’ antecedent consequent

29. Truth value for conditionals. Things that are q Things that are p Things that are neither p nor q

30. Truth Table 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1

31. if p, then q p only if q q p You have malaria only if you have fever.

32. Only men are whisky-drinkers. Only M is W If W then M

33. Equivalence De Morgan’s laws:

34. Tautology is a proposition that is always true. Contradiction is a proposition that is always false: Falsum: symbolizes a contradiction

35. if is a tautology, then is a contradiction. if is a contradiction, then is a tautology.

36. Inference rules

37. introduction

38. 1 1 1 Compare:

39. 1 2 1 2 Compare:

40. 1 1 Compare

41. Proof or Deduction stands for a proof: there is one or more inferences that together lead to C.

42. A Proof 1 2 1 1 2

43. Soundness and completeness A logic is sound if a deduction yields a valid argument. It is complete if there is a deduction for a valid argument.

44. Quantification Theory For all member in a set … There exist a member in a set …

45. All teachers are friendly. For all x (if x is a teacher then x is friendly) Some teachers are unfriendly There is (exists) a teacher such that (x is a teacher and x is unfriendly)

46. All teachers are friendly. (if x is a teacher then x is friendly) Some teachers are unfriendly (x is a teacher and x is unfriendly)

47. All teachers are friendly. Some teachers are unfriendly

48. All teachers are friendly. Some teachers are unfriendly

49. A predicate is expressed by an incomplete sentence or sentence skeleton containing an open place. “___ is a man” expresses a predicate. When we fill the open place with the name of a subject, such as Socrates, the sentence “Socrates is a man” is obtained.

50. Consider the skeleton “___ loves ___”. In grammatical terminology, this consists of a transitive verb and two open places, one to be filled by the name of a subject, such as “Jane”, the other of an object, such as “John”. Binary relation