Logic Third Class summer session

Tonight we cover Fallacies - and following several studies will treat them as similar to jokes, though clearly not all fallacies are jokes. But the comparison is helpful. Notice Daniel Dennett's treatment of them in his book Inside Jokes. I will play his TED talk as well. So the first quiz question for the first half is do you agree with this comparison of humor to fallacious reasoning? For the second half of the evening we begin covering the Aristotelian system beginning with standard form propositions. If we can we might go on to do some syllogisms. So the quiz question for the second portion is determine if the syllogism EIO-2 is valid or not and give an example.