[PA Engineer]

Logic is no longer a required college course, nor is rhetoric or debate. These are the courses you would find logical fallacies and argument skills. Real science courses would be good for scatter graphs.?

I agree. I picked Logic as part of my distribution. I went on to minor in Logic, including Symbolic Logic. Symbolic Logic was not for the faint of heart, however it provided all the tools I needed later to develop algorithms for both programming and engineering tasks.

I found the Logic courses also provided the tools I needed for project management. There is rarely a project that cannot be formulated when the tasks and available resources are defined. Pseudo code is applicable to both programming and projects.

It is a tragedy that Logic is no longer a required course in college today. At one time it was a Freshmen requirement.

[poinq]

A major in logic is quite rare these days. I had a girl friend who got a B.S. and Masters in writing from Northwestern U. She was taking writing courses all the time and never took a philosophy or logic course once. The school never cared whether she could argue. They only cared that she could describe and persuade. It’s no wonder we have such good advertising in America. We should be proud.