Logic

[tookewlandy]

has anyone ever taken LOGIC. I signed up to take it as a humanities elective and i am trying to see what i just got myself into. Was it difficult? What did the class consist of? Was there a lot of math or anything, papers, speeches etc.. Anything you can tell me would help

Also if you think it would help me as a nurse. I signed up to take it online, and i have to take it with a nursing course, thats the only reason i worry because i don't want to take anything to stressful on top of my second year nursing courses.

thanks all

Andy

[Megsd, BSN, RN]

I took logic as an undergrad because I had to take it or speech and I was scared of speech. I don't know if it's the same as yours will be, but the class I took wound up being "symbolic" logic, where you can construct a sentence using a series of symbols that imply certain things about a sentence, and then you can put together an "argument" and decipher using formulas if it is technically logical or not. I can't remember the symbols any more but an example is like...

Some politicians are rude.

Mark is a politician.

Therefore, Mark is rude.

This argument may not be true because only SOME politicians are rude, which implies that some are not. So Mark may or may not be rude.

Honestly, I liked the class so much I wound up taking the 400-level version of it later as an elective (it was under the philosophy department) and did so well I was exempt from taking the final exam. It was very different from any other class I took and while I don't really know if it has any use for nursing, I thoroughly enjoyed it more than I think I would have liked speech class.