Teaches following Subjects/Exams
Logic (5th - 8th Grade)
Language of Instruction:
English
Professional Experience
Engineer
Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, Washington, United States
Jan 1985 - Aug 1989
Education
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering
Washington State University, Washington, United States
Sep 1980 - Dec 1984
Professional Exams & Certifications
Provisional certification, Association of Classical Christian Schools
Idaho, United States
Year Of Passing:
2004
Publications and Research
Introductory Logic
James B. Nance, Douglas Wilson
In this book, directed toward junior-high students, Douglas Wilson and James Nance lay the proper foundation of reasoning in the truth of God, and go on to train students in the crucial skills of defining terms, recognizing basic types of statements, arguing with syllogisms, arguing in ordinary language, and identifying informal fallacies.
Intermediate Logic
James B. Nance
First, students are introduced to propositional logic, logical operators, and truth tables, while reviewing and reapplying the concepts of validity, contradiction, consistency, and equivalence. Next they learn to construct formal proofs of validity by using basic rules to derive an argument’s conclusions from its premises. Finally, students discover how they can use the technique of “truth trees” to determine consistency, self-contradiction, tautology, equivalence, and validity.