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Module 1.1: Logic

🌴 Module 1.1: Logic

5. Active Learning Exercises 🏖️

Exercise 1: Subject and Predicate

Identify the subject and predicate in the sentence:
"Female crabs that live in the James River are rare."

Exercise 2: Formal vs Informal Languages

Label each of the following as formal or informal: a) German, b) Python, c) Swahili, d) C++, e) Mandarin.

Exercise 3: Bivalent Sentences

Write two examples of bivalent sentences and two examples of non-bivalent ones.

Exercise 4: Analyze the Thought Content

Why does the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" fail to express a clear thought?

Exercise 5: Recognizing Arguments

Identify conclusion and premise and indicators in this passage:
"If the bridge is closed, then no one can get to the island. The bridge is closed. Therefore, no one can get to the island."

Exercise 6: Passage Classification

Label each passage type (report, belief, explanation, illustration, advice/warning).

1. Studies have shown that some groups of people may be affected more by post-COVID conditions. These are examples: People who have experienced more severe COVID-19 illness; People who had underlying health conditions prior to COVID-19; People who did not get a COVID-19 vaccine.
2. Ask yourself: More importantly, do you know your friend well enough to judge whether she would be grateful or embarrassed?
3. One of the most costly chemical disasters in the United States involved a small, single-product manufacturer, ironically named Life Science Products Company, which made the pesticide Kepone…[it] operated only 16 months in 1974 and 1975, in Hopewell, Virginia, yet managed to poison its workers and pollute the environment, causing millions of dollars of damage.
4. People wonder why toothpaste and O.J. taste awful together. Toothpaste contains sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) that creates bubbles when you brush. But it suppresses sweet receptors on the tongue, which prevents the brain from registering sweetness, and destroys compounds in the saliva called phospholipids, which block bitter receptors. SLS not only cuts orange juice’s sweetness, but promotes its natural bitterness, too. So, that is why.