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
1. Define and illustrate obversion and state the principle which
conditions the process.
2. Give directions for making the following propositions logical:
(1) Only first class passengers may ride in parlor cars.
(2) All who claim to be pious are not pious.
(3) “Blessed are the merciful.”
3. Write a theme of 200 words on “Logic and Life.”
4. Put into syllogistic form and test the validity of this argument.
“We are going to have an open winter because the hornets’ nests
are near the ground.”
5. Justify the teaching of logic in an institution which offers
courses in Educational Theory.
6. Correct the following definitions, stating the rules violated:
(1) A man is an organized entity whose cognitive powers
function rationally.
(2) A bird is an animal that flies.
(3) A scholar is an educated man with scholarly attainments.
7. Prove that in the first figure the minor premise must be
affirmative.
8. Investigate a case of habitual tardiness by making use of the
canon of difference.
9. Describe with illustrations the various ways of begging the
question.
10. Why should classification rather than logical division be the
mode of procedure in the case of small children? Illustrate.
11. Illustrate the following:
(1) non connotative term,
(2) undistributed middle,
(3) fallacy of accident.
Set II.
_Answer ten questions._ Time, 2 hours.
Throw the following into the form of a syllogism and criticise, giving
reasons:
1. “I do not know how to teach school as I have had no experience.”
2. “Only the honest should be in business and you are not honest.”
3. Why should all teachers study logic? Give arguments in full.
4. Describe Mill’s methods of induction and illustrate one.
5. Give and explain the rules of logical definition.
6. Explain the distribution of terms and illustrate by circles the
meaning of the four logical propositions.
7. Define the following:
(1) teaching,
(2) extension of terms,
(3) obversion,
(4) hypothesis,
(5) relative term.
8. Give a class room illustration of the Complete Method.
9. Distinguish between
(1) distributive and collective terms,
(2) analysis and deduction,
(3) logical division and classification.
10. Illustrate the following:
(1) contradictory proposition,
(2) analogy,
(3) law of identity,
(4) singular term,
(5) univocal term.
11. Convert, if possible, the following:
(1) Some men are honest.
(2) All that glitters is not gold.
(3) All kings are fallible.
Set III.
_Answer ten questions._ Time, 2 hours.
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