COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LOGIC EXAMINATION WITH EXAMPLES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILS 4083 LOGIC EXAMINATION WITH EXAMPLES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Theology
Theology (Evening)

Course Objective

To provide students to practice "conceps", "propositions" and "inferences", which are three trivets of logic, on examples so that they will be able to apply them in a quick, easy and effective way. To ensure students to think in the logical soundness. To ensure students to be cautious and aware of logical errors by giving a lot of exercises. To show how to apply logic in Daily basis life on plenty examples such as sentences, articles, anectodes, advertisements and so on; thus, it will be seen that logic is very crucial in Daily life and it is an enjoyable academic discipline.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will learn "definition", its types and rules of it so that they will be able to use concepts in apple-pie order and not to fall confusion in using concepts.
2   Will have the ability to apply the knowledge on propositions and their usages to other areas such as Quran and Islamic jurisprudence.
3   Will develop to analyze arguments, to quickly understand what could be deducted from what or vice versa.
4   To test the correlations between the premise and the result in an argument.
5   When doing all, they will detect false and invalid proofs and will be able to take a stand against them.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The definition, aim and significance of Logic
2 Logic of Concepts (Terms, variates, usages)
3 Definition, Dividing, Classification and their rules
4 Compound propositions and their details
5 Terms' usages in analogy and fallacies
6 Solid proofs with regard to shape and content
7 Conditions and convenance of argument
8 Mid-term exam
9 Unproductive and inconclusive argument
10 Effective speech, convincing and their conditions
11 Fallacy and subjective causes of falling in fallacy
12 External causes of falling in fallacy
13 Fallacies in language
14 Frequently commited fallacies
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Klasik Mantığa Giriş, Ankara, 2004.
Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Yanlış Düşünce ve Davranışlar Karşısında Mevlânâ, Istanbul, 2009.
Ibrahim Emiroğlu, Mantık Yanlışları, Ankara 2004.
Madsen Pirie, The Book of The Fallacy,Londan 1985.
Toulmin, Stephen, The Uses of Argument, Cambridge 2006.
Yaran, Cafer Sadık; Informel Mantığa Giriş (Introduction to Informal Logic), Istanbul, 2010.
Nigel Warburton, A dan Z ye Düşünmek, Çev. Sevda Çalışkan, Ankara 2006.
Kur'an-ı Kerim (The Holy Quran), Seçme Hadisler (Hadith Collections); Örnek Metinler (Sample Texts), Gazetelerden Seçmeler (Samples from newspapers), Reklamlar (Advertisements).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ibrahim.emiroglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Free

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 138

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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