obsidian/🛡️ Debate/Coaching/Coursework/Classes/Syllabus.md

First session - fallacies

1. Top 10 most common fallacies
   1. red herring
   2. begging the question
   3. appeal to nature
   4. appeal to authority
   5. appeal from incredulity
   6. muddying the waters
   7. poisoning the well
   8. gish galloping
   9. appeal to ignorance
   10. motte and bailey
2. Homework
   1. identify 5 examples of informal fallacies correctly

Second session - intro to debate

1. Reviewing homework
2. Philosophy/debate terms
   1. argument
   2. proposition
   3. soundness
   4. validity
   5. defeaters
   6. a priori
   7. a posteriori
   8. empirical
   9. analytic
   10. synthetic
   11. contradiction
3. Homework
   1. identify 5 examples of terms correctly

Third session - branches philosophy

1. Reviewing homework
2. Logic
   1. laws of thought/classical logic
      1. law of non-contradiction
      2. law of excluded middle
      3. law of identity
   2. validity
   3. soundness
   4. modality
      1. necessity
      2. contingency
3. Epistemology
   1. skepticism
   2. contextualism
   3. scientific method

Fourth session - propositional logic

1. Reviewing homework
2. Arguments
   1. deductive
   2. inductive
   3. abductive
3. Propositional logic
   1. truth tables
   2. writing arguments
   3. formal fallacies
   4. principle of explosion
4. Homework
   1. create valid inferences
   2. do a prop logic quiz

fifth session - debate structure

1. Dialogue flow tree
2. Homework
   1. apply the tree to a debate

sixth session - mock debate

1. Reviewing homework
2. Mock debate

Optional class - vegan debate

1. NTT mock dialectic

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