This is an introductory course to logic and part of a Classical Education.  Sometimes it's easiest to teach things by using the opposite approach, in this case teaching fallacies.  Fallacies, or errors in logic, are used every day in all types of situations.  Everyone has committed a fallacy before. For example, this class is great.  Why? No one has ever told me it wasn't. (Proof by Lack of Evidence Fallacy - which isn't really proof at all).

First, we will learn why it is important to...