Logic as theory of good reasoning help the students not only to reason but also to understand how reason works. It allows to necessarily infer all the expectations that follow from accepting some set of premises as true. Offering the course from the beginning of their philosophical formation will facilitate the students to formulate their rational thinking according to the laws of logic. Deduction which is formal logic starts with a detailed analysis of the thematic clarification like denotation, connotation, classification of terms, definition and division and its different rules and fallacies. The major discussion of the topic is about mediate and immediate inferences namely proposition and syllogism. Aristotelian syllogism is discussed in detail in the last part of the course with its application in human reasoning. Obviously, the different rules and fallacies of the inferences will facilitate the students to have right thinking and thereby search for the truthfulness of the argument.
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