Picture LogicLongmans, Green, 1887 - 188 páginas |
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... MAJOR PREMISS . ( " Man is Mortal . " ) MAJOR TERM . ( Mortal . ) © The Syllogistic Alp . Here we between " Socrates " and " mortal . " are asked to establish a comparison Unable to see 1 through an intervening hill , we climb by ladder ...
... MAJOR PREMISS . ( " Man is Mortal . " ) MAJOR TERM . ( Mortal . ) © The Syllogistic Alp . Here we between " Socrates " and " mortal . " are asked to establish a comparison Unable to see 1 through an intervening hill , we climb by ladder ...
Página 115
... major term ( for the predicate of a proposition is generally a larger class including the subject , as " mortal " is larger than Socrates ) , and the subject of the conclusion is called the minor term . Hence , major and minor premiss ...
... major term ( for the predicate of a proposition is generally a larger class including the subject , as " mortal " is larger than Socrates ) , and the subject of the conclusion is called the minor term . Hence , major and minor premiss ...
Página 117
... premisses , and then we saw that B was subject in the major premiss ( top proposition ) of syllogism ( i ) , but predicate of major premiss of syllogism ( ii ) . Here , then , is another point in which these triplets of propositions ...
... premisses , and then we saw that B was subject in the major premiss ( top proposition ) of syllogism ( i ) , but predicate of major premiss of syllogism ( ii ) . Here , then , is another point in which these triplets of propositions ...
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... major premiss , and " breast " in the minor . 6 ( 3 ) Two negative premisses prove nothing . For if we wish to compare two things through a third , and neither of these two things is connected with the third , we can draw no conclusion ...
... major premiss , and " breast " in the minor . 6 ( 3 ) Two negative premisses prove nothing . For if we wish to compare two things through a third , and neither of these two things is connected with the third , we can draw no conclusion ...
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... major term , " illicit process of the major . " 6 ( 8 ) Let not the conclusion be negative , unless one1 of the premisses is negative . For we could not say , " Socrates is not stone " as a conclusion , unless we had a " in one of our ...
... major term , " illicit process of the major . " 6 ( 8 ) Let not the conclusion be negative , unless one1 of the premisses is negative . For we could not say , " Socrates is not stone " as a conclusion , unless we had a " in one of our ...
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Página 174 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause of the phenomenon.
Página 174 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Página 175 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents...
Página 175 - Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever another phenomenon varies in some particular manner, is either a cause or an effect of that phenomenon, or is connected with it through some fact of causation.
Página 117 - Here, then, is another point in which these triplets of propositions, called syllogisms, may differ. And as syllogisms differ in mood according to the arrangement of their propositions, so they differ in figure according to the position of the middle term in those propositions. There can only be four figures. Where the middle term is subject in the major and predicate in the minor premiss, where it is predicate in both, where it is subject in both, and where it is predicate and subject ; eg, take...
Página 135 - ... negative minor in the first figure (contrary to canon). ' [If asked (as possibly you might be) what is the regressive or Goclenian Sorites, remember it is the reverse of the above. Begin with the last premiss and write the train from last to first, and keep the old conclusion, eg, All D is E, All 0 is D, All B is C, All A is B, .-.All A is E. ' The rules are reversed, too ; only one premiss particular, the last ; only one negative, the first (the same propositions being negative and particular...
Página 38 - the science of the necessary forms of thought," and so it has been called a " formal science ; " for, as we have seen, Logic is only concerned with the forms or modes in which people think as opposed to the matter. It has also been called " the art of thinking," ie the application of universal laws to particular thoughts; and the universal laws imply the existence of science. Lastly, it has been well defined as "the science of the conditions on which correct thoughts depend, and the art of attaining...
Página 24 - A thing cannot both be and not be. 3. The Law of Duality. A thing must either be or not be.
Página 134 - All A is B All B is C All C is D All D is E .'. 'All A is E 20.
Página 128 - All men are mortal, . • . Socrates is mortal," or " All men are mortal and Socrates is a man." The order of the first two in conversation would be " Socrates is mortal, because he is a man," and " Socrates is mortal, because all men are so.