my logic professor just went from boring to awesome

[Nostromo]

To be fair, its super hard to make logic "fun". You'd have to be a spectacular lecturer to pull it off.

[DaShi]

What's the point of a class on logic? Aren't all people born with an innate understanding of it?

[Kuciwalker]

Are we reading the same forum?

[Kuciwalker]

And, as a serious reply to a frivolous comment, it's a class on specific formalized logical systems (mostly it covers propositional calculus and first-order logic, I don't know how far we're going to go into type theory later), not "logic" as some abstract concept. It's a class in the math department.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by DaShi
Aren't all people born with an innate understanding of it?

no

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Are we reading the same forum?

I just assumed that many people may choose to forgo logic in order to promote their own personal agendas.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by DaShi

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Are we reading the same forum?

I just assumed that many people may choose to forgo logic in order to promote their own personal agendas.

Poly aside, in the general population there's no shortage of people who have no grasp of logic to begin with, thinking and acting entirely based on emotional impulse. Any episode of Cops should suffice to prove that.

[DrSpike]

Or indeed instances of your view of your professor changing, not on the quality of his lectures but on who we once knew in the past.

[Kuciwalker]