A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of TeachingMcNair, George Hastings
Philosophy
A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching
McNair, George Hastings
Logic
(14) “It is fair to give the author the benefit of the doubt when we
set ourselves up as censors worthy of the name.” Explain this.
(15) Illustrate by citing arguments the need of detecting terms which
are equivalents in signification.
(16) How does the logician look upon number and tense as treated in
grammar?
(17) Illustrate and test an argument in which one of the premises is
elliptical.
(18) Summarize the most common mistakes made by students in the
testing of categorical arguments; illustrate these mistakes and
then write in logical form.
=10. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.=
(1) Give illustrations of arguments which are valid in form but
invalid in meaning. Explain.
(2) May an argument be valid in meaning but invalid in form?
Exemplify.
(3) Put a simple problem in arithmetic in syllogistic form and show
that the minor premise naturally comes first.
(4) In the practice of law is there any custom analogous to giving
the author the benefit of the doubt in logical argumentation?
(5) Test in detail the following arguments:
(1) “All wise presidents strive to give heed to the demands of
the people, but this president has not done so.”
(2) “The existence of God is not universally believed, hence it
cannot be true.”
(3) “The institution has prospered under the present régime
therefore why change it?”
(4) “The man is guilty because seven out of the nine witnesses
so testified.”
(5) “I know three men who cleared not less than ten thousand
dollars in this business; and why cannot I do as much?”
(6) “Only members may vote and, since you are not a member, you will
not be allowed to vote.” Change the exclusive in this argument in
the two ways suggested in Chapter 8, page 126. Test the argument
in both cases.
(7) Show by illustration that the quantity sign “_all_” when used
with “_not_” may in some cases mean “_no_” and in others
“_some-not_”.
(8) Make two selections from some poet of authority representing
arguments with an inverted premise.
(9) Select from news papers three arguments which seem to illustrate
the fallacy of four terms but which in reality do not. Explain.
(10) Wherein could the elliptical proposition lead to error?
(11) Put the following in syllogistic form and test:
(1) “That persons may reason without language is proven by the
circumstances that infants reason and yet have no language.”
(2) “The scriptures cannot come from God because they contain
some things which cannot be comprehended by man.”
(3) “When Columbus was sailing the ocean in search of a new
world, he fell in with a flock of land birds and concluded
that he could not be far from land.”
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