Academic

[Announcement] Lecture by Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Mahabir Pun of Nepal

Monday, August 6th, 2007

The Ateneo de Manila-School of Government through its Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program in cooperation with the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) will be hosting a Lecture by Mahabir Pun of Nepal, one of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awardees. The Ramon Magsaysay […]

Ayala Young Leaders Congress 2008 Now Open for Applications

Friday, July 20th, 2007

The Ayala Young Leaders Congress is, hands down, the best leadership development program for youth in the Philippines. If you make the requirements, give it a shot and apply.
Visit www.ayalayoungleaders.org.ph to download the Student Application set and for more information on AYLC 2008. Deadline for School Nominations will be on August 24, 2007. Please […]

Marketing-driven Development

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

We’ve all heard about marketing-driven growth. It’s near become a cliche in business schools and the circles to which their graduates soon enter.  But taking the concept a little further, applying the strengths of marketing (whether you consider the set of concepts, principles and frameworks that constitute it a science or an art) to the […]

All You Need to Know Logic (Part 3 - Rules of Inference)

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

From where we left off, we can now symbolize arguments, assess the truth value of statements, and convert statements into their more easily manageable logical equivalents via the rules of replacement. Here, we find ourselves at the end of the process, where from various statements (either true or false), we look to assess the validity […]

All You Need to Know Logic (Part 2 - Rules of Replacement)

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Some statements may be written differently but logically mean the same thing. For example, the statement ‘if I pass the board exam, then I will inherit a thousand pesos’ is logically equivalent to ‘I will inherit a thousand pesos if I pass the board exam’. Now, this is obvious. Some logical equivalences are more subtle. […]

Part 1: Relations in Logic (Samples)

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Understanding truth tables is key to the next steps in logical deduction. This is so simply because all that follows are based on the truth relations shown in the truth tables, that is, what follows are simply derivative rules that were designed to ease analysis of validity and , consequently, soundness.
The truth or falsity of […]

All You Need to Know Logic (Part 1 - Relations in Logic)

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Everyone needs logic because everyone uses it, consciously or as a matter of habit. Clearly, this argument is a little circular, arguing in effect that we need logic because we need logic. Yet this is an immutable and apparent truth. We need logic because our language is grounded on both rules of syntax (grammar) and […]