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
(4) Give in substance Aristotle’s classification of fallacies.
(5) Select the fallacies which could with justice be called fallacies
of interpretation. See Creighton.
(6) Explain in full the popular conception of equivocation.
(7) Indicate the marks which distinguish the following: Ambiguous
middle, fallacy of four terms, non sequitur, figure of speech.
(8) “Why should Jeremy Bentham employ a person to read to him who
habitually read in a monotonous tone of voice?” Jevons――Hill.
(9) Originate a sentence of about ten words and through the fallacy
of accent secure as many different meanings as possible.
(10) Show that the fallacy of figure of speech might be classed as a
fallacy of four terms.
(11) To what fallacies, in your opinion, are teachers especially
given?
(12) Show that the fallacy of accident could be classed as one of
ambiguous middle.
(13) “When the Puritan settlers in New England passed their three
famous resolutions――Resolved, _first_, that the earth is the
Lord’s and the fullness thereof; _secondly_, that he hath given
it to his Saints; _thirdly_, that we are his Saints. What fallacy
did the Puritan Fathers commit?” Ryland.
(14) A Dutchman afflicted with pneumonia arises at midnight and eats
a large quantity of sauerkraut. The Dutchman gets well, whereat
his physician writes in his little book on remedies, “_Sauerkraut
sure cure for pneumonia_.” The physician was guilty of what
fallacy? Why?
(15) De Morgan quotes from Boccaccio this: “A servant who was roasting
a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to
cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon the table
the master desired to know what had become of the other leg. The
man answered that storks never had more than one leg. The master,
very angry, but determined to strike his servant dumb before
he punished him, took him next day into the fields where they
saw storks, standing each on one leg, as storks do. The servant
turned triumphantly to his master; on which the latter shouted,
and the birds put down their other legs and flew away. Ah, sir,
said the servant, you did not shout to the stork at dinner
yesterday; if you had done so he would have shown his other leg.”
What fallacy does this quotation from Boccaccio illustrate?
(16) Why should begging the question and irrelevant conclusion be
classed as fallacies of the “forgotten issue?”
(17) From the standpoint of both form and meaning test the validity of
the following:
(1) “Virtue is the child of knowledge and vice of ignorance;
therefore education, periodical literature, traveling,
ventilation, drainage and the arts of life, when fully
carried out, serve to make a population moral and happy.”
Hibben.
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