Police Logic
Police Logic
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Police Logic
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Elvis Marques
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Reysell Olivares
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What is logic?
It is the formal science and branch of both philosophy and mathematics that
Study the principles of demonstration and valid inference, the fallacies,
the paradoxes and the notion of truth.
Types of logic
Formal logic
2. Informal logic
3. Symbolic Logic
4. Mathematical logic
Characteristics of logic
This means that from the point of view of logic, they do not exist.
correct or incorrect arguments, but valid or invalid.
Logic is divided into two main branches: formal logic and logic
informal.
Formal logic is philosophical and traditional. It is responsible for studying the
deductive arguments, those in which inference is used to
draw conclusions.
Third excluded
There are various modalities that logic takes into account at the moment of
decide whether a proposition is valid or not. Among these, the following stand out:
The temporal difference: some propositions were false in the past but
Now they are true in the present, and vice versa.
What is language?
Types of language
Informative language:
Expressive language:
Language serves the expressive function when it allows the sender to communicate to
others, the states of mind, the emotions or feelings. In oral discourse,
It is easy to recognize emotions or feelings by observing and listening:
gestures, postures, intonation, tone and timbre of voice; but in written discourse,
One should observe elements in the text such as: exclamatory sentences, periods.
suspensive, use of diminutives, among others.
Linguistic Acts
Judgments are another type of statements. These are like verdicts, just like
It happens with statements. With them, we create a new reality, a
reality that only exists in language. If we did not have language, reality
created by the trials would not exist. The trials are another important example of the
generative capacity of language. They do not describe something that already existed before
to be formulated. The reality they generate resides entirely in the interpretation
that provide.
Language traps
Since the examples are very numerous, let us cite some concepts that are of
frequent use in both social sciences and in politics and in the media
of communication. We are not going to denounce the ultra neoliberal language of the
economists, or the hyperpositivism of jurists and political scientists, or objectivism
"neutral" or an accomplice to many sociologists, since in addition to being easy would
to criticize a part of the university students but probably not the majority.
We will only comment on terms that have become generalized, that are used by others.
also critical university students, whoa at first they seem innocent,
well-intentioned, most of the time even progressive, in any case
they are always used as 'natural', indisputable, positive
Laws of logic:
1) The law of identity: it states that A is A. In other words, something is what it is.
An apple is an apple. If something exists, it has a nature, an essence. For
For example, a book has a front cover and a back cover with pages inside.
A car has four wheels, seats, doors, windows, etc. A tree has branches.
leaves, a trunk, and roots. This also means that anything that exists has
characteristics. We recognize what something is by observing its characteristics. You know
that a tree is a tree because it sees its branches, its leaves, its trunk, etc.
Furthermore, if something has an identity, it cannot have another, since this one is unique and
individual. In other words: If something exists, it has a series of attributes that are
consistent with itself. This something does not have a set of attributes that are
inconsistent with themselves. Therefore, we can easily conclude that a cat
It is not a parachute. An apple is not a race car and a tree is not a
movie.
2) The law of non-contradiction: it tells us that A cannot be both A and not A at the same time.
same time and in the same direction. In other words: something, like a statement not
It can be both true and false at the same time and in the same way. With
we frequently use the law of non-contradiction in discussions and debates since we are
capable of recognizing when something is contrary to itself. If we told you that
Yesterday someone went shopping and later we told them that this someone didn't go.
purchases, you would correct us by telling us that there is a contradiction. A
Contradiction occurs when one statement excludes the possibility of another, and yet both
they claim to be true. Since we know that both cannot be true, we see
so, a contradiction. Based on this principle, we can conclude that the truth
it does not contradict itself.
3) The law of excluded middle: it states that a declaration is either true or false.
Example: "That woman's hair is brown." Is it true or false that the hair of
that woman is brown-haired. Another example: The statement 'I am pregnant' is true or
false. Due to the fact that the author of this Lesson is a man, it is not possible that he is
pregnant. Therefore, the statement is false. If I were a woman, it would be possible that
she were pregnant given the normal conditions of a woman's body. When
A woman is pregnant; there is no middle position: She is, or she is not.
pregnant.
The law of excluded middle is important as it helps us deal with absolutes and this
it is particularly important in a society where relativism is promoted and the
True statements are denied.
Contradiction:
Incompatibility that exists between different propositions. The expressions 'Juan is alive' and
"Juan is dead" are contradictory, as long as they refer to the same individual: it is not
it's compatible to affirm "Juan is alive and is dead" as this person is either alive or dead.
dead, but not alive and dead simultaneously. These propositions invalidate each other.
yes.
Contingency:
It is the way of being or characteristic of something in that it can be or not be, depending on the
case (something that is not necessary, but it is possible). In general, contingency is predicated of
the states of things, the facts, the events, or the propositions. There is a debate about whether it is
acceptable to talk about contingent entities (or necessary or impossible entities), known
like the debate surrounding the modalities of dicto (of the word) and of res (of the thing).
The relationship between necessity, possibility, and contingency is easy to misunderstand. Everything that is
contingent is possible, but not everything that is possible is contingent, for that which is
Necessary is also possible, but it is not contingent. On the other hand, not everything that is not
Necessary is contingent, for what is impossible is neither necessary nor contingent.
Tautology:
Repetition of the same thought through different expressions. A tautology, for the
rhetoric is a redundant statement.
Truth table:
A truth table, a table of truth values, is a table that shows the value of
truth of a compound proposition, for each combination of truth that can be
assign.
It was developed by Charles Sanders Peirce around the 1880s, but the most popular format is
the one introduced by Ludwig Wittgenstein in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, published in 1921.
The Certainty:
It is the awareness of knowing that we know the truth. In this sense, as certainty.
we call the safe and clear knowledge that one has of something and that leaves no room for doubt.
The word, comotal, is a feminine noun that derives from certain, which in turn comes from the
Latin certus, which means 'decided', 'resolved', or 'precise'. Certainty, in this sense, does not
it limits the idea that we know the truth, but rather refers to the state of knowledge according to
of which we are aware that we possess the truth.
From there, being certain about something means knowing it with conviction, with security, and even with
evidence that what is known is, in fact, true: 'I am certain that it rained'
during the early morning, as the park's ground is wet.” Thus, certainty is also associated
to the trust placed in the information being handled. The basis of certainty, as such, is
a rational knowledge of reality that can be recognized objectively.
From there, all knowledge, and mainly scientific and factual knowledge, is based on a
set of certainties that are articulated as a discipline of knowledge.
For this reason, certainty is also associated with the exact or precise knowledge that one has.
about a certain matter, subject, or phenomenon. Synonyms for certainty, for their part, are
certainty, conviction, security or trust. On the other hand, antonyms would be doubt,
uncertainty or hesitation, that is to say, the state of consciousness we have towards that which
we ignore or do not fully know.
The Doubt:
It is an indeterminacy between two decisions or two judgments. It is a hesitation that
One can experience it in the face of a fact, a piece of news, or a belief. For example: 'The version
This official of this story generates a great doubt in me,” “Teacher, I have a question regarding the
theme that has just been explained", "There is no doubt: it is about a great player who will benefit the
team.
Doubt implies a state of uncertainty: where there are doubts, there are no certainties. If a person
doubt about something, is not sure of the validity of that question. The doubt is a limit to the
Trust, since where there are doubts, there is no belief in the truth of knowledge.
Probability:
Probability is a cause of the certainty associated with a future event or occurrence and is usually
expressed as a number between 0 and 1 (or between 0% and 100%).
Criteria of Truth:
The criterion of truth is the standard for establishing veracity, the certainty of our knowledge;
the testimony that confirms and attests to the correctness of our ideas; the degree of agreement
between our sensations and concepts and objective reality. For idealism, the criterion of
Truth is not found outside of human consciousness, in objective reality, but in the
sensations, in the ideas of the subject, in the clarity and accuracy of concepts, etc.
From the point of view of idealism, it is difficult to distinguish between the truthful and the false, between the real and
The fantastic. The criterion of the truth of dialectical materialism is, on the other hand, experience.
the practice, understood not only in the narrow sense of the single act of verification, of
experiment or individual experience, but above all, in the sense of practice
historical-social of men. "The conception of life, of practice, must be the first and
fundamental conception of knowledge (Lenin).
The criterion of practice refutes idealism and agnosticism, as it demonstrates that
our knowledge of the laws that govern Nature has the value of truths
objects, and that there are no unknowable things in the world.
The Error:
The error is something wrong or incorrect. It can be an action, a concept, or a thing that
It was not done correctly.
For example: 'I think coming to your house was a mistake,' 'You made a mistake: three for
eight is equal to twenty-four, and not to twenty-six
from the government as it squandered millions of dollars.
The Statements:
A statement is a minimal speech act, made through a sentence or an expression.
syntactic unit smaller than a sentence. Informally, the term statement is used as a synonym for
sentence, although pragmatically there are differences. For example, the same sentence said
in different contexts corresponds to different statements. And vice versa, different
sentences can express or elaborate on the same statement as this:
All these different sentences, in essence, have the same interpretation, and therefore
they can essentially be considered realizations of the same pragmatic statement.
Sentence, statement, and proposition). In logic, a sentence is sometimes understood as a statement.
which can be true or false, such as "it is raining", "it is cold" or "Venus is a planet".
In this sense, logical arguments consist of statements: the premises and the
Conclusion. In other words, the statements are the series of elements combined with each other.
formed by the communicative behaviors established by the code, and constitute the
verbal messages.
CLASSIFICATION OF TRIALS:
1. FOR UNIVERSAL QUANTITIES: They are those that refer to all individuals of the
species. Example: All men are rational. PARTICULAR Are those that are
they refer to several objects without reaching totality, that is, they refer only to a part
Delete everything. Example: Some men are loyal. SINGULARS They are those who make
reference to a single individual of the species. Example: Juan is loyal.
2. FOR QUALITY: These are judgments that express the compatibility between the subject and the
predicate. The predicate is performed on the subject. AFFIRMATIVE • Example: Men are
NEGATIVE • They are those that express the incompatibility between the subject and the
predicate. They result in the subject relationship.
3. BY THE MODALITY: Problematic Judgments: They express only one category of possibility.
They indicate that something may happen, occur, or be known. It may rain in the afternoon.
cancer can be caused by a virus. It is likely that they will appoint a new secretary of
hacienda. Assertive Judgments: They express a real but subjective knowledge, that is, what each being
A human can express an opinion and/or feeling about something and, therefore, is subject to discussion and a
contrary judgment with equal validity. One Hundred Years of Solitude is the best book I have read. The
I don't like Picasso's paintings. The death penalty is a just punishment. Apodictic Trials:
They express the highest degree of truth, certainty, and necessity of knowledge. They indicate something.
What must be by necessity (laws of mathematics, physics, and other sciences) is matter.
Neither created nor destroyed, it only transforms. Pythagorean theorem. Deeper into
the sea, greater pressure
Reasoning:
Reasoning is understood as the faculty that allows solving problems, extracting
conclusions and learning consciously from events, establishing connections
causal and necessary logics between them. In a more restricted sense, one can talk about
different types of reasoning:
Logical or causal reasoning is a process of logic through which, starting from one or
more judgments, it derives the validity, the possibility or the falsehood of another different judgment. The study of
The arguments correspond to logic, so it also corresponds to it.
indirectly the study of reasoning. Generally, the judgments on which it is based a
reasoning expresses knowledge already acquired or, at least, postulated as
Hypothesis.1 It is possible to distinguish between several types of logical reasoning.
For example, deductive reasoning (strictly logical), inductive reasoning
(where probability and the formulation of conjectures intervene) and abductive reasoning.
Immediate Inference:
An immediate inference is an inference that can be made from several statements or
proposition. For example, starting from the statement 'All toads are green' we can
No frog is not green.
that can be validly used in logical operations, the result of these is the
a logically equivalent form of the given statement. There also exist
Invalid immediate inferences that are syllogistic fallacies.
Conversion
Given a statement of type E, starting from the traditional order of opposition, 'No S'
From P, one can obtain the immediate inference 'No P is S', which is the conversion.
from the given statement.
Given a type I statement, "Some S is P", the inference can be obtained
Immediate 'Some P is S', which is the conversion of the given statement.
Opposition
Given a type A assertion, "All S are P", one can obtain the inference
immediate "NoAnySesno P", which is the opposition of the given statement.
Given a type E statement, 'No Ses P', one can obtain the inference
immediate "TodoSesno P", which is the opposition of the given statement.
Given a type I statement, 'Some Ses P', one can obtain the inference
"SomeSno is not P", which is the opposition of the given statement.
Given a type O statement, "Some S is not P", the inference can be obtained
immediate 'Some Sesno P', which is the opposition of the given statement.
Against positive
Given a type A statement, 'All S are P.', one can obtain the inference
immediate "All Pesno S", which is the contrapositive of the given statement.
Given a type O statement, "Some S is not P.", the inference can be obtained
immediate 'Some No Pesno S', which is the contrapositive of the given statement.
Illegal subalternation
Inference meditative:
It is one that follows a single premise to reach a conclusion regarding our work.
It may be considered a mediated inference because it uses several data points to arrive at a conclusion.
determined statistic. In the case of an inference, a premise and a conclusion are followed.
but in our example, the data are the premises and the total is a conclusion, so the index
Of people who have a level of education, it could be considered as an immediate inference.
Induction
Induction (refer): reasoning method that consists of going from the particular to the
general. from facts to generalizations. Deduction (infer): method of
reasoning that consists of going from the general to the particular, from the statements
general to the specific conclusions.
analogy
The syllogism is a form of deductive and inductive reasoning that comes from the
word from the Latin syllogismus, and is part of the logic of Greek origin, which consists of
of two statements as premises and another as a conclusion, with the latter being a
necessary deductive inference from the other two.