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Lesson 8: Negating Statements, Counting Lists

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Lesson 8: Negating Statements, Counting Lists

Topic. This lesson covers:

  1. Sec 2.10 Negating Statements
  2. Sec 3.1 Counting Lists
  3. Sec 3.2 Factorials

Learning Outcomes.

  • Apply rules for negating various types of statements, both in formal logic and natural language
  • Count collections of lists with various properties

Homework. There is one WeBWorK assignment on today’s material (Note: some of the material in this assignment will be covered in the next lesson):

  1. WeBWorK: WeBWorK Assignment5-Sec3.1-3.4

Lecture Notes:

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Lesson 6: Biconditionals, Truth Tables, and Logical Equivalence

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Lesson 6: Biconditionals, Truth Tables, and Logical Equivalence

Topic. This lesson covers:

  1. Sec 2.4 Biconditional Statements
  2. Sec 2.5 Truth tables for Statements
  3. Sec 2.6 Logical equivalence

Learning Outcomes.

  • Identify instances of biconditional statements in both natural language and first-order logic, and translate between them.
  • Construct truth tables for statements.
  • Determine logical equivalence of statements using truth tables and logical rules.

Homework. There is one WeBWorK assignment on today’s material:

  1. WeBWorK: Assignment3-Sec2.1-2.6

Lecture Notes:

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