Labels:bulletin board | shelf | sky | web site OCR: Logic is the sci ience or art of reasoning Formal logic is system of inference [see inference] generalization, and demonstration, but at its simplest, saying that an argument has poob logic means that it mal ikes sense that the claims lead you step by step to the conclusion This poster uses classical form the syllogism [see syllogism], that consists of major claim (trees prevent wind erosion), minor claim that IS unstated here (farms on the plains suffer from wind erosion) and conc lusion (plains farms need trees) Of course most arguments you encounter are much more complicated than syllogisms, and some of them even use faulty logic [see fallacy] Logical fallacies may appear convincing, but when you take closer look at them they don't actually make sense science makes
