JOSE MARIA COLLEGE

Phil-Japan Friendship Highway

Catitipan, Davao City

I. Course: PHILO 1 Credit: 3 Units

II. Course Title: LOGIC Pre-requisite:

III. Course Description: This course deals with the science and the art of correct thinking. As such, it sharpens the mind to think critically, analytically and
scientifically. It seeks approaches for the mind to operate orderly.

IV. Objectives:

A. Institutional Objectives:

JMC aims to provide a complete and centralized system that molds every student into becoming a skillful and knowledgeable individual, spiritually, and morally
cultivated and academically excellent; where education is characterized by practical and active learning based on the standards suitable to the basic needs of every
student; where education provides new ways to deeper learning not only in the academic aspect but also in other areas of living both socially and spiritually.

B. Course Objectives:

b.1. Cognitive (Creed)

b.1.1 To know the important principles and rules which govern mental operation.
b.1.2 To employ scientific thinking in solving life’s problem.

b.2. Affective (Moral)

b.2.1 To internalize and apply appropriate Laws and Principles to a given problem for the attainment of truth.
b.2.2 To justify life’s problem by confronting them with an analytical, critical, and systematic mind.

b.3. Psychomotor (Skills)

b.3.1 To construct logical arguments by using principles regarding correct thinking.

b.3.2 To differentiate valid arguments from invalid arguments.
VI. Course Requirements:

1. Periodical Examinations
2. Oral Recitation
3. Weekly Quizzes (written)
4. Assignments

VII. Computing the Final Grade

Criteria for each Grading Period

 Long Exam - 40% (fixed)

 Attendance, including deportment - 10% (fixed)

 Quizzes
 Term Paper, Project, - 50% (flexible, but distribution of weight must be fixed to each criterion established)
 Assignment, etc.

Note: Minimum passing score is 60% of the total number of items

Formula on computing the Final Grade (FG)

Midterm + Final = Final Grade

2

• The result shall be rounded to the nearest ones only on Finals.

• The final grade shall either be a passing grade or failure.
VIII. References:

1. Books:
1.1) Timbreza, Florentino H., Logic Made Simple. Phoenix Publishinghouse, 1992
1.2) Meer, Thelma Q., Hualda, Lou S., and Bamba, Lamberto M. Basics of Logic. Bulacan: Trinitas Publishing, Inc., 2004
1.3) Cedeño, Lourdes R. Logic Notes and Workbook. Manila: Rex Book Store, Inc., 2000
1.4) Cruz, Corazon L. Introduction to Logic. National Book Store, 4thEdtion, 1995

Prepared by:

ROMMEL G. GESTOPA, MAT RE

College Instructor

Corrected and Noted by:

MR. FLORANTE T. TARONA

Program Head, Bachelor of Arts
V. Content

TIME INSTRUCTIONAL TEACHING

FRAME OBJECTIVES SUBJECT MATTER PROCEDURES TEACHING AIDS EVALUATION VALUES
DESIRED

At the end of the lesson,

students would be able to:

P  Determine the
meaning & function of
• Language and its
functions
•
•
Lectures
Oral Recitation
•
•
Visual aids
Chalk / Board
•
•
What is language?
What are the functions of
language  # 1.1 pp 3-5 • Open Forum • Textbook language?
 # 1.2 pp 17-18

R  Explain the distinction

between validity and
 # 1.4 pp 11-13
• Logic, Validity & Truth
truth
 # 1.1 pp 8-10
 # 1.2 pp 6-7
E studying logic?
 Identify the kinds of
terms & the kinds of
• Idea, Term and Sign
signs involved with
L  # 1.1 pp 12-16
communication
 # 1.2 pp 25-26
 # 1.3 pp 12,13,
19-21, 38-39
 Explain several kinds
I •
of definition and • Definition & Kinds of
divisions used in logic Definition
• Division and
Classification
 # 1.1 pp 19-28
M  # 1.2 pp 41-43
 # 1.3 pp 45-48
 # 1.4 pp 51, 55, 56,
57
• Lectures • Visual aids • What is logic?
• Oral Recitation •
• Chalk / Board How can an argument be
• Open Forum valid & true?
• Textbook
• What is the importance of
• Lectures • Visual aids • What is the difference
• Oral Recitation • Chalk / Board between an idea & a term?
• Open Forum • Textbook • How are ideas acquired?
• What are the kinds of terms
& signs?
• Lectures
• Visual aids What is a definition & its
• Oral Recitation • Chalk / Board importance?
• Open Forum • Textbook • What are the types of
definition?
• What are the rules of
•
definition?
What is the difference
between division &
classification?
 TIME INSTRUCTIONAL TEACHING
FRAME OBJECTIVES SUBJECT MATTER PROCEDURES TEACHING AIDS EVALUATION VALUES
DESIRED

At the end of the lesson,

students would be able to: • How is judgment made?
• What is the difference
 Distinguish a judgment • Judgment, Sentence and • Lecture • Visual aids between judgment &
M from a proposition, a
sentence or a definition
Proposition
 # 1.1 pp 33-35
•
•
Demonstration • Chalk / Board proposition?
Recitation • Textbook • What is the distinction
I  # 1.2 pp 47-59
 # 1.3 pp 65-67
• Open Forum between an affirmative &
negative proposition?
D • What is the difference
between a proposition & a
 Identify the various sentence?
• Categorical Propositions • Lecture • Visual aids
kinds of categorical • What are the 3 types of
 # 1.1 pp 38-43 • Demonstration • Chalk / Board
T propositions according
to quantity & quality
 # 1.2 pp 55, 67
 # 1.3 pp 73-76
• Recitation • Textbook •
propositions?
What are the 4 kinds of
• Open Forum propositions according to
E •
quality & quantity?
What are the 4 kinds of
R  Enumerate the kinds of • Hypothetical Propositions
opposition that form the
square of opposition?

M hypothetical
propositions
 # 1.1 pp 50-52
 # 1.2 p 55, 77-78
•
•
Lecture
Demonstration
•
•
Visual aids
Chalk / Board
• What is a hypothetical
proposition?
 # 1.3 p 77 • Recitation • Textbook • What are the 3 kinds of
• Open Forum hypothetical propositions?
• What is the relationship
between an antecedent & a
consequent?
 Distinguish the various
• Modal propositions & the
kinds of modal • Lecture • Visual aids • What is a modal
Multiple Types of
propositions & the •
Categorical Propositions • Demonstration Chalk / Board proposition?
multiple types of
 # 1.1 pp 54-56 • Recitation • Textbook • What are the types of
categorical
propositions • Open Forum modal propositions?
• What are the multiple
types of categorical
propositions?
 TIME INSTRUCTIONAL TEACHING
FRAME OBJECTIVES SUBJECT MATTER PROCEDURES TEACHING AIDS EVALUATION REFERENCE
 At the end of the lesson,
students would be able to:

 Explain the nature of • The Nature & Principles • Lecture • Visual aids • How is the process of • # 1.1 pp 126-
induction as another of Induction • Demonstration • Chalk induction? 128
form of mediate • Recitation • Board • What are the formal & • # 1.4 pp 337-
F inference • Open Forum • Textbook material principles of
induction?
340

• What is the argument by

analogy?
I  Identify illustrations of • The Formal Fallacies • Lecture • Visual aids • What is fallacy?
the 5 methods
• Demonstration • Chalk • What is the difference
• Recitation • Board • # 1.1 pp 145-
N
between formal &
• Open Forum • Textbook informal fallacies? 153
• # 1.2 pp 127-
 Determine the • The Informal Fallacies 131
informal & informal • Lecture • Visual aids • What are the general types
A fallacies involved in
some arguments
•
•
Demonstration
Recitation
•
•
Chalk
Board •
of informal fallacies?
What is the difference
• Open Forum • Textbook between fallacies in
language & fallacies of • # 1.1 pp 157-
presumption? 161
L • # 1.2 pp 131-
133
• # 1.3 pp 157-
159
• # 1.3 pp 161-
162
• # 1.4 pp 347-
352

TIME INSTRUCTIONAL TEACHING

FRAME OBJECTIVES SUBJECT MATTER PROCEDURES TEACHING AIDS EVALUATION REFERENCE
 At the end of the lesson,
students would be able to:

S  Explain the general
nature of reasoning &
the meaning of
E inference
• Nature of Reasoning, • Lecture • Visual aids • What is reasoning? • # 1.1 pp 63-71
Types of Inference, • Demonstration • Chalk / Board • What are the two general • # 1.3 pp 105-
Oppositional Inference
•
•
Recitation
Open Forum
• Textbook
•
types of inference?
What are the kinds of
107

immediate inference & the

laws of logical opposition?
M  Discuss immediate • Conversion, Obversion, • Lecture • Visual aids • What is the difference
inference and its types Possibility & Actuality
• Demonstration • Chalk / Board between conversion & • # 1.1 pp 75-81
I •
•
Recitation
Open Forum
• Textbook
•
obversion?
What are the rules governing
•
•
# 1.2 pp 82-83
# 1.3 pp 85-86
conversion & obversion?
• # 1.4 pp 193-
F  Define the meaning of
mediate inference,
•
•
Categorical Syllogism
The Hypothetical • Lecture • Visual aids • What is the structure of the 200

deduction, induction & • Demonstration • Chalk / Board categorical syllogism?

Syllogism
the categorical and • • What are the figures &
•
I Recitation Textbook • # 1.1 pp 85-
hypothetical syllogism moods of syllogism?
• Open Forum 111
• How can one determine a
• # 1.2 pp 109-
valid or invalid categorical
115
N •
syllogism?
What are the rules of
• # 1.2 pp 119-
121
conditional, disjunctive &
conjunctive syllogisms? • # 1.3 pp 113-
A • How can one identify a
•
121
# 1.3 pp 127-
valid or invalid hypothetical
syllogism? 132
L • # 1.4 pp 73,
77-
78 & 85
• # 1.4 pp 109-
113