If you're interested, take a gander at the following links. They are self-paced and free. I personally took two semesters of symbolic logic and a few courses in the scientific method, but keeping everything in your head while in a debate is a real challenge to be honest. I prefer writing when possible :P
Symbolic Logic: A Free Online Course he finally gets rolling pretty good at 22:00:
Lofic & Proofs
I might just run through these to refresh, it has been forever since I did a truth tree. Don't get weirded out by the formulae, they're easier than they look when you see them the first time.
Okay, I'll do my best. I once tried to read Kierkegaard and got completely lost in the sentences.
Thank you. I find it rather the subject somewhat intimidating so I thought I'd do better in person. I'll try this, though.
I am steeped in the scientific method. I did three years of a Ph.D. in Linguistics and my parents are academics. But I never studied formal logic or debate, both of which I'd like to have under my belt.