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Critical Thinking
Cizí jazyk – Angličtina II vyučující: PhDr. Peter Jan Kosmály, PhD.
AMAK 15. 5. 2013
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Critical Thinking
• Being a Language Chameleon
• Listening and Understanding – Brainstorming – Ethnolinguistics – Cultural Linguistics
• Words – Worlds – Definitions
• Language systems, Logic as a system
• Aristotle and Predicate logic
• Arguments and Argument Analysis
• Arguing and False Arguments
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Being a Language Chameleon
• Word come and go....
• Words create worlds...
• How to sell... a contradiction?
Listen and try to identify as many words as You can:
Culture Club - Karma Chamelion In an interview, Culture Club frontman Boy George explained: "The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. It's about trying to suck up to everybody. Basically, if you aren't true, if you don't act like you feel, then you get Karma-justice, that's nature's way of paying you back.“
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Chameleon ; http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5775
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Being a Language Chameleon
• How to sell a word (contradictions)?
• What is „Karma chameleon“ about? Listen to the song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kPi0JqvRRs
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Being a Language Chameleon
• Now, write down the words, You have identified from the text...
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Being a Language Chameleon
• Now – think about the everyday´s survival...
• How to use language? What is “selling of contradictions”?
• Chameleon, as known, adopts itself at new conditions verz
quickly. How to use this natural principle to manage
language communications? Crisis, communication,
business, PR, journalist, basic communication or any level
of communication?
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Listening and Understanding – Brainstorming – Ethnolinguistics – Cultural Linguistics
• The component analysis is a linguistic method for decoding
and uncovering unknown (foreign – alien) languages
• Ethnolinguists seek for components:
A) Categorical (VERB – NOUN, ADVERB - ADJECTIVE..)
B) Sub Categorical (GENDER, VERB ACTION OR STATE)
C) Identificational (more specific and detailed)
XXX XXX-s ZZZZ YYY WWWW / UUU TTTT
Kosmály teaches brave students the course Practical English.
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Listening and Understanding – Brainstorming – Ethnolinguistics – Cultural Linguistics
• XXX XXX-s ZZZZ YYY WWWW / UUU TTTT
• Kosmály teaches brave students the course Practical English.
• This is the decoding of a new language
• This is elements of language
• This is the Logic of the Language
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
Presupposition (assumptions), pragmatic and semantic (a son has a
father); distinguished from logical entailment (youngest son has siblings)
• The Theory of Concepts: the concept is an abstract entity that has
different encoding, linguistic representations in various languages
• concepts are non-illustrated entities (non-experiental, abitrary)
• Accidental features of specific entity do not represent the concept
• Content of the term: a set of attributes that inevitably belong to all and
only those objects that fall under the term
• Extent of the term: a set of objects that belong to the concept
• Logical class: the totality of objects with common characteristics that
distinguish them from other objects
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
• Unique terms (individual) are applied to individual objects (Prague,
Vyšehrad, Jan Novák)
• General terms apply to group of items of the same kind (town, tree, car)
• Concrete terms are related to individual objects or groups, that can
exist specifically and independently of the human mind, they are
accesible by the the senses to more people at the same time (dog, table)
• Abstract terms are related to properties of objects, which themselves
do not exist as separate and are possible only in thinking of one
particular person (courage, truth, beauty, size, true, false)
Exercise:
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
• Mass terms are related to a group of objects imaginable as a whole
(forest, library).
• Positive terms indicate that the subject has certain characteristics –
symptoms (salty croissant, cheerful guy, decent guy)
• Negative terms indicate that the subject has not certain characteristics
– symptoms (unfunny = sad story, indecent acting)
• Categories: scientific terms reflect the most general and important
relationships and connections (philosophy: cause and effect, physics:
force biology: cell)
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
• The range (extent) of terms:
1. nonnull terms:
a) singular (the country's highest mountain)
b) plural - with a finite number of objects (our class)
• infinite number of objects (even or odd numbers)
2. range-empty terms:
a) strictly empty (the largest prime number)
b) quasi-empty (Square Circle)
• Range-empty concepts (terms) are imaginary or logically
questionable.
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
• Range ratios of terms:
1. Compatible:
a) overlap (common ground)
b) subordination
c) superiority
d) equivalence
2. Incompatible: have no common essential elements
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
• Explanations and definitions are more precise terms in determining
the meaning of an expression with other expressions.
• The set of elementary concepts is called the dictionary of language .
• According to Aristotle, definition is horismós, boundaries, and
defining is proceeding by identifying the nearest genus and
species specifications (man = zoonpolitikon).
• Definition always includes: the definiendum (what is being
defined) and the definiens (we define with it).
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
Requirements of a correct definition:
1. Logical-semantic
2. Logical-epistemological
Translatability (substitutability of the Definiendum by the Definiens)
and the range (extent) identity of both. Definiens must only express the
essential characters with precise, sharp expressions and positive forms.
Analytical definition – the definition of a simple or compound
expression that has the meaning already traditionally defined.
Synthetic definition – the definition of a new term, introduced into
dictionaries and terminology
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Words – Worlds – Definitions
The nominal definition (basic) must meet these criteria:
• elimination (substitutability)
• non-creation (must not derive new terms, concepts, definitions)
• existence (there must be at least one subject)
Tautology means defining bya vicious circle, definiendum and definiens
overlap and there are other elements as well (it is good to be good).
A broad definition – Definiens range (extent) includes the range
(extent) of the definiendum.
A narrow definition – poor, lacking, insufficient, inadequate.
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Language systems, Logic as a system
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• Language and communication
• Language and description
• Definitions and codes
• Interpretation and Explanations
• Decoding, Understanding
• Reception
• Feedback
Praha - Nové mlýny, Google Earth, 18. 1. 2011 http://www.panoramio.com/photo/46737351
Language systems, Logic as a system
• basic categories and units:
• linguistics: Phonetics and Phonology (Phoneme),
• Morphology (Morpheme), Lexicology (Lexeme – Word), Syntax (Sentence), Stylistics (Styleme, Contrast, etc.)
• Logic: terms, arguments, statements, relations (implication, conjunction, disjunction)
• Arts, Mathematics, natural languages: sign systems
• Logic Mathematics
• Logic and Mathematics = as title and painting
• Linguistics and Mathematics = the Mathematical analysis of language (communication)
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Language systems, Logic as a system
• Logic is a system of analysis of language
• Its subject of interest is the Reasoning (Arguing).
I. If Argentina joins the Alliance, then Brazil and Chile will boycott the Alliance.
II. If Brazil or Chile will boycott the Alliance, the Alliance will not be effective.
III. If Argentina joins the Alliance, the Alliance will not be effective.
All of them want some fees from You.
All the expenses. We're different ...
sources: http://www.bowdoindailysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Brain-puppet256.jpg http://www.thornybleeder.com/index_files/persuasion-techniques.jpeg
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Arguments and Argument Analysis
• Propositional logic is based on taking into account the
assumption that the compound statement is true or false,
depending on what is the nature of the propositional conector
that connects the statements.
• Propositional logic analyzes the sentence up to the level of
elementary statements. The structure of elementary propositions
is not studied. Statements are from the old ancient understood as
phrases which are true or false, so have a truth value.
The truth-values are two:
• true (true, 1)
• false (false, 0)
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Arguments and Argument Analysis
In Prague it is raining and in Brno it is nice.
| | |
elementary statement conjunction ementary statement
It is not true that it is raining in Prague.
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conjunction ementary statement
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Propositional logic
Symbols ¬ ⌐ ˅ ˄ Þ ≡
relations indicate negation, disjunction, conjunction, implication and
equivalence
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Propositional logic
Symbols ¬ ⌐ ˅ ˄ Þ ≡
relations indicate negation, disjunction, conjunction, implication and
equivalence
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Propositional logic
Negation ¬ corresponds with the statement "it is not true that ..."
It is a unitary connector, does not associate two statements
Example:
"It is not true that Prague is a city"
It is a function of one variable:
F (p) → {true, false}
Logical form: ¬ p
p: tree is an organism. (verdict)
¬ p: tree is not the body.
It is not true that the tree is an organism. (compound statement)
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variable operation
p ¬ p
1 0
0 1
Propositional logic
Conjunction ˄ corresponds with the term "and".
Not every "and" in natural language means conjunction
It's a binary, commutative connector.
It is a function of two variables:
F (p, q) → {true, false}
Logical Form: p ˄ q
Example:
"Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic and Prague is the seat of
the President."
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variable variable operation
p q p ˄ q
1 1 1
1 0 0
0 1 0
0 0 0
Propositional logic
Disjunction ˅ corresponds with the term "or".
Conjunctive "or" is often used in natural languages in the
exclusionary sense of "either-or", then the analysis will use a
different connector – alternative (or non-equivalence).
It's a binary, commutative connector.
It is a function of two variables:
F (p, q) → {true, false}
Logical Form: p ˅ q
Example: "Cars have front or rear wheel drive."
But: "This man is married or unmarried" ¬ (p ≡ q)
"My father asked whether I stay or whether I go home with him" → ¬ (p ≡ q)
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variable variable operation
P q p ˅ q
1 1 1
1 0 1
0 1 1
0 0 0
Propositional logic
Implication Þ corresponds with the terms "if, then".
It is the only binary connector which is not commutative, so we call
the first term of the implication the antecedent, the second term we
call the consequent. Implications do not assume any substantive
connection between antecedent and consequent, therefore we call
them sometimes material implication.
It is a function of two variables:
F (p, q) → {true, false}
Logical Form: p Þ q
Example: If Peter was on Monday night at home,
he has studied mathematics.
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variable
1.
variable
2.
operation
p q p Þ q
1 1 1
1 0 0
0 1 1
0 0 1
Propositional logic
Equivalence ≡ means "if and only if", but not "if" (that is the
implication)
It's a binary coupling.
It is a function of two variables:
F (p, q) → {true, false}
Logical Form: p ≡ q
Example:
The student's performance is rated as excellent if and only if the student has
basic knowledge of logic.
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variable variable function
p q p ≡ q
1 1 1
1 0 0
0 1 0
0 0 1
Predicate logic - Aristotelian statements in predicate logic
affirmo – neggo subject (S) a predicate (P)
Every (+) contrary No (-)
S a P S e P
subalternating contraditory subalternating
Some (+) subcontrary Some (-)
S i P S o P
Every dog is mammal. ∀ x (F(x) G(x))
¬ ∃ x (F(x) ˄ ¬ G(x))
No dog is mammal. ∀ x (F(x) ¬ G(x))
¬ ∃ x (F(x) ˄ G(x)) Some dogs are mammals. ∃ x (F(x) ˄ G(x)) ¬ ∀ x (F(x) ¬ G(x))
Some dogs aren´t mammals. ∃ x (F(x) ˄ ¬ G(x))
¬ ∀ x (F(x) G(x))
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Quasi argumentation or using psychological elements is
incorrect reasoning manner, according to logical rules of the
language.
• Threats (argumentum ad baculum)
• Blackmailing and appeal on feelings
• The social appeal
• Individual appeal
• Argument relying on authority
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Among arguments with language impairments we count:
• use of ambiguous words
• use of ambiguous sentences
• the substitution of parts and whole
• the substitution of meaning by emphasizing the importance
of words, misinterpretation of words, meanings
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Logically incorrect argumentation
Arguments where the conclusion does not meet assumptions.
Improperly constructed argument.
We can prove counterexample.
"Anyone who knows the logic is intelligent."
"Some students of our class are intelligent."
"Some students from our class know the logic."
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Arguments with missing arguments
Are omitted assumptions that are false and after their
completion the erroneous of the argument would be evident.
"As she is a student of the Faculty of Arts, she has a
scholarship."
(unsaid assumption, that not every student of the faculty has
the scholarship)
"Since she is taking a child support, she is married."
(not everyone who is married takes child support)
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Arguments with the complex question
"Do you Smoke and drink coffee?"
When the answer is NO, it is clear what the options actually
true?
Weak inductive argumentation
Generalizations: After getting caught a Czech tourist in Vienna
by stealing, there began to emerge notices that stealing is
wrong in the Czech language. The argument that all Czechs
steal is not defendable by statement that some Czechs were
caught by stealing.
Skipping information, Indefinite subject, etc.
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Finally
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