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I wasn't trying to say that it was all useless information, which I believe Ray and Arising took it as. What I was wondering was, what would be the need for such a question as the one below, in any other place but in a symbolic logic class. DvE (DvF)[horsehoe]G ~G[horseshoe]~E ______________ G ? I c...

It is true that the arguments that get used as examples in courses tend to be trivial ones. You can see straightaway whether the argument is valid or not. But: (i) there are more complicated arguments around, and once you learn how to analyse the easy ones, you will be able to analyse the more comp...

Hello everybody. I'm taking a philosophy course in college right now, Symbolic Logic, and I just don't understand the need for it. I'm all for learning for learning's sake, but this is starting to take the place of trigonometry as the most useless thing I've been forced to learn. Ok, not all of it w...