Things are going well in Symbolic Logic. Students are mastering truth tables, and they’re symbolizing English sentences into our truth-functional language with increasing facility. (For those who haven’t taken a class like this, or for those who’d appreciate a reminder, please see the note at the end.) Then comes the truth table for the material…| Blog of the APA
One of my favorite moments in class is when a student says something like, “I think I have a question, but I’m not sure how to put it…” This blog post is about why that is one of my favorite moments. About 7 or 8 years ago, after giving an assignment that involved writing some…| Blog of the APA
I. The Hermeneutic Priority of Questioning How does a sentence heard, seen, or felt transform into a meaning understood? We—linguistically shaped human beings—hear and see sentences all the time, all around us. And yet only some of those sentences make sense to us. It is not just that some sentences are expressed in languages that…| Blog of the APA