Logic | Makerere University Courses

The course develops a comprehensive frame of reference to logic in order to help understand the need and the role of logic in the everyday discourse. The application of logic to the African cultural context will be given special attention. Course Objective:

To enable the students see the relationship between valid reasoning and their practical application to real life situations.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course the students should be able to define and differentiate well formed formulas from badly formed formulas.
Students should be able to distinguish different forms of statements (like: tautologies, contradictions and consistencies) from the types of statements (like: consistent, equivalent and contradictory statements).
Students should be able to analyse and distinguish the different forms and types of statements used in ordinary language.
Students should be able to identify the different rules of valid deductive arguments and apply them in solving different problem situations.

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