The Tools of Argument: Validity, Soundness, and Fallacy: Philosophy Unit 1, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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The Tools of Argument: Validity, Soundness, and Fallacy is Unit 1 of Philosophy and Logic: Reasoning About Reality, Knowledge, and Value (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Philosophy course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 93 pages.

• The premise/conclusion structure of a short argumentative passage
• The counterexample test for validity, run on an argument structurally identical to a worked classroom example
• Standard-form argument reconstruction
• The independence of validity and soundness as evaluative properties of an argument
• The deductive/inductive distinction
• The six named informal and formal fallacies and their discriminating tests
• The logical independence of validity and soundness
• Charitable reconstruction of an argument the student disagrees with
• The modus ponens / affirming-the-consequent contrast and the counterexample test for validity
• The boundary between a named fallacy and legitimate rhetorical emphasis in an unfamiliar text

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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