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Three short meetings a week · Ages 12–15
The same ground as Logic I, in half-hour meetings three times a week for four weeks. Reasoning is a skill, and skills are built by short frequent practice.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
Logic does not reward the weekly ninety-minute lecture. It rewards doing thirty minutes of it on Monday, being wrong, and coming back Wednesday to be less wrong. This version of Logic I is built that way: twelve short meetings across four weeks, each one a bit of instruction and then practice out loud.
A student is asked to state an argument in standard form, name what is wrong with it, and defend the diagnosis while eleven other people listen. Doing that twelve times in a month works better than doing it eight times in a semester.
This one meets three times a week, always at the same hour. That is a real claim on your week, and it is deliberate: this material is learned faster in short frequent contact than in one long meeting, and the gap between meetings is short enough that nothing has to be re-established at the start of each one.
This course accumulates. The class reads the same pages at the same pace and each meeting picks up the argument where the last one left it, so joining halfway means joining an argument already in progress.
Because there is a whole body of work at the end of it, this one is graded (pass/fail) and can be carried to a transcript. Enroll before the second meeting.
Week 1
Three meetings: what an argument is, premises and conclusions, standard form.
Week 2
Three meetings: syllogisms, validity versus truth, counterexample as a tool.
Week 3
Three meetings: the informal fallacies, found in real arguments rather than textbook examples.
Week 4
Three meetings: students diagnose arguments live and defend the diagnosis.
Practice sets
Odysseus Lyceum
A short set between each meeting, ten minutes at most. Supplied at no cost.
None. Any student in the age range can enroll.
Logic is taught as a neutral tool. Students practice on arguments from every direction, including arguments this Lyceum agrees with.
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Full refund up to seven days before the first meeting; inside seven days, everything paid is credited to your Lyceum balance. No refunds or credits once the class has begun. Cancel any section from your parent account.
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Economics
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Smith, Mises, Hayek and Friedman put directly against Marx, Polanyi, and the modern critics, with students required to state each case in its strongest form.
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Reviews appear once families have taken it.
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$48 in total
$19.20 for add’l siblings
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A student studying Smith reads Smith. Books I and IV in substantial selection, plus the passages from Moral Sentiments people forget exist.
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Reviews appear once families have taken it.
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$22.40 for add’l siblings
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Reviews appear once families have taken it.
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$70 in total
$28 for add’l siblings
