Logic

This evening we looked at different aspects of language that are relevant to logic. The difference in how the term sentence is used compared with statement (or proposition), the formal nature of arguments in logic rather than the variety of things we might normally call arguments, the frames within which words have meaning (here we looked at some of a presentation by George Lakoff) I mentioned Doug Hofstadter's argument in his book Le Ton Beau de Marot. We discussed the Laws of Thought. We looked at the Square of Opposition. I pointed out that many apparent arguments are actually disagreements over meaning. Then for fun and for the quiz question, we went over the Ontological Argument. The quiz question is what do you think of the Ontological Argument? Is it persuasive?