Material Logic
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OK, we know the Ten Categories. So what? What can we do with them? But also in this lecture, we work some of the examples from pp. 72 and 76 of our text.
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In this lecture, we cover the last six of the Ten Categories.
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We continue our survey of Aristotle’s Ten Categories by looking at the three intrinsic accidents of quantity, quality, and relation.
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If you really want to know what you’re talking about, how should you go about it? How many different kinds of things are there to know about something? Aristotle wondered that too, and his answer has help up pretty well for 2500 years.
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In this lecture, we cover our first widely recognized fallacy: equivocation. Along the way, we also cover the general topic of fallacies, and why there is no universally recognized list of them. Finally, we cover the extremely important principle of “hermeneutical generosity.”
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We round out our discussion of the basic properties of all concepts by discussing two fundamentally different ways of understanding what a concept means: intension and extension.
Logic Lectures 