Week 8 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 8 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 36–44 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more review, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (18–21 min total)

• The Ultimate Logic Map: How All the Core Concepts Fit Together — Let's Get Logical
• Arguments — 1000-Word Philosophy
• Let's Think Logically: Examining the Differences Between "Begging the Question" and Valid Arguments — Calvin Bell III

① Reviewing the tests for the link

Chapter 8, Section “Judge the link: valid versus sound, strong versus cogent” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Judge the link” · Remember: valid and strong describe the link between premises and conclusion, while sound and cogent also need every premise to be true.

• The Ultimate Logic Map: How All the Core Concepts Fit Together — Let's Get Logical — an eight-minute review that sorts any argument as deductive or inductive, then valid or invalid, strong or weak, then sound or cogent; this builds on Week 3's work with validity, soundness, strength, and cogency, so pause at each fork and name the running question's two links. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)
• Inductive and Deductive Reasoning: Simple Examples Explained — Let's Get Logical — a five-minute explainer that separates the two kinds of argument by what each one aims to do, with a fox-and-canine example worked as a circle picture; compare that picture with the Venn test you reviewed in the chapter. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)
• Arguments — 1000-Word Philosophy — a short essay that reviews premises, conclusions, validity, strength, soundness, and cogency in one place, with plain examples; read sections 1 to 3 and check each definition against your Week 1 to Week 3 notes. Use it while working through the Week-8 module overview. (reading, 6–9 min)

② Spotting an either-or with a missing option

Chapter 8, Section “Name the test first: the neighbors, and the midterm” · Session 2, Segment 7, “Name the test first” · Remember: two options are fine when they really are the only two, so ask what supports the claim that no third option exists.

• Logical Fallacies Animation - False Dichotomy / False Dilemma — IMpasto Studios — a two-minute cartoon in which a grounded teenager claims that missing one party means she will never have friends, then asks again with real reasons; afterward, name one option the parking-fee passage left out, and listen for the closing joke, a circular reason that previews this week's begging the question. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)
• False Dilemma — ChangingMinds — a one-screen reference entry that states the pattern, gives two short examples, and lists the alternate names; read it and say which hidden premise each example needs. (reading, 2–4 min)

③ Arguments and questions that assume their own answer

Chapter 8, Section “Find the hidden assumption: the fallacies of presumption” · Session 2, Segment 6, “Find the hidden assumption” · Remember: write the hidden assumption out as a supplied premise, then ask what supports it.

• Let's Think Logically: Examining the Differences Between "Begging the Question" and Valid Arguments — Calvin Bell III — a four-minute lesson that sets a circular argument about ghosts beside a valid argument; notice that its own valid example repeats its conclusion word for word as its second premise, which makes it valid and circular at once, as the chapter warns a circular argument can be, so ask what each example fails to give a doubter. (video, 4 min) (captions: automatic)
• Logical Fallacies: The Loaded Question — Bitesize Philosophy — a one-minute definition of the loaded question with a reply that challenges the hidden claim instead of answering it; compare that reply with the one the chapter gives for the phone question. (video, 1 min) (captions: automatic)
• Complex Question (Logical Fallacy) — Carneades.org — a ninety-second explanation of two questions disguised as one, so that a yes and a no both concede the hidden claim; listen for the alternate name and match it to this week's loaded question. (video, 2 min) (captions: automatic)
• Complex Question — ChangingMinds — a one-screen reference entry on the loaded or complex question, with two short examples and its other names; read it and write the hidden claim inside each example. (reading, 2–3 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• Validity and Soundness — Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — a short reference entry on valid, sound, invalid, and unsound arguments, including an either-or example worth comparing with the false dilemma; read the opening definitions and the worked examples, and skip the closing notes. (reading, 4–6 min)

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