Terrorism and other threats to the integrity of democratic institutions, including graft and corruption, are actually practices of incorrect reasoning.

The purpose of logic is to provide the student a thorough training on analytic skills starting from the fundamentals of inference, the basic principles of valid argument forms up to the caveats of informal fallacies and the categorical imperatives of moral reasoning.

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DIEGO A. ODCHIMAR III earned his degrees in MA Philosophy (2003) and AB Philosophy (1997) at the University of the Philippines, Diliman where he is pursuing Doctor of Public Administration.