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
(18) Selecting some class room experience, illustrate analogy by
example or type.
(19) Define and exemplify types as used in logic.
(20) Remark upon the errors incident to analogy.
(21) Summarize the advantages which induction by analogy offers.
(22) State and exemplify the requirements of true analogies.
(23) Indicate the superiority of induction by analysis over the other
two forms. Illustrate.
(24) Define and illustrate perfect induction.
(25) Under what circumstances is perfect induction justified?
(26) Define and illustrate traduction.
(27) Indicate the various forms of traduction.
=19. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.=
(1) Show the connection between illicit minor and the “inductive
hazard.”
(2) Show by illustration that time tends to universalize truth.
(3) “Induction and not deduction is the natural method of the child
mind.” Prove the correctness of this statement.
(4) “Induction is the process of inference by which we get at general
truths from particular facts or cases.” Prove that this is not
strictly correct according to definition.
(5) As related to establishing general truths, what are the special
functions of induction and deduction?
(6) Show that an inductive inference must of necessity be more or
less uncertain.
(7) Is there any distinction between the laws of universal causation
and sufficient reason? Hyslop’s Elements of Logic, page 329.
(8) Show that universal causation and uniformity of nature are
complementary laws. Hyslop, p. 330.
(9) Relate the “fact of causation” to the laws of thought.
(10) Distinguish between empirical and “a priori” laws.
(11) When Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood, what form
of induction did he use?
(12) What form of reasoning did Columbus follow in proving that the
earth is spherical?
(13) “It is said that the greatness of Darwin was due largely to his
habit of never ignoring an exception.” Justify by illustration
the truth of this assertion.
(14) In analogical reasoning by example, under what conditions would
_one_ illustration be as convincing as _many_?
(15) “Considering the similarities and differences, the weight of the
argument favors Mars’ habitability.” Suppose the proportion of
probability were something like this――Resemblances: Differences
= 8:7; wherein might the conclusion be erroneous?
(16) Mention a mark or characteristic which would make the
habitability of Mars incompatible?
(17) Select a topic for investigation which is peculiarly adapted to
enumeration; to analogy; to analysis.
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