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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

Name: A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching
Author: McNair, George Hastings

McNair, George Hastings

Logic

1. Investigate by the Joint Method of Induction this question: “Why
      is John absent so often?”

   2. Explain and illustrate:
        (1) contradictory propositions,
        (2) illicit middle,
        (3) obversion,
        (4) contraversion,
        (5) synthesis.

   3. State and exemplify the rules of logical division.

   4. Write a theme of at least 150 words on one of the following:
        (1) Induction as the Discoverer’s Method.
        (2) A Rational View of Success.

   5. Define logically:
        (1) teaching,
        (2) deduction,
        (3) education,
        (4) analysis,
        (5) money.

   6. Distinguish between the extension and intension of terms.

   7. Exemplify:
        (1) an absolute term,
        (2) the complete method,
        (3) non connotative terms,
        (4) fallacy of accident,
        (5) hypothesis.

   8. “Educated among savages, he could not be expected to know the
      customs of polite society.” Is this valid? Reasons.

   9. “The signs indicate that you are either stupid or unprepared; but
      the past proves that you are not the former.” Test the validity.

  10. Discuss comprehensively one of the following topics:
        (1) The Fallacies.
        (2) Thinking.
        (3) Abbreviated Arguments.


                                Set IV.

_Answer ten questions._                                 Time, 2 hours.

   1. Exemplify:
        (1) the law of variation in the extension and intension of
            terms,
        (2) a distributed predicate.

   2. Indicate with explanation the logical errors:
        (1) A teacher assumes that the “bad boy of the school” is going
            to cause trouble in her room.
        (2) All the men of the Commission are fair minded men, hence
            they will render a fair decision.

   3. What experimental method of induction is the most positive in its
      conclusion? Illustrate this method.

   4. State and illustrate the rules of logical definition.

   5. Obvert each of the four logical propositions. Explain the
      principle involved.

      Test the validity of the following arguments:

   6. “Horses, not being human, cannot reason.”

   7. “Only the industrious deserve to succeed and you have never done
      a hard day’s work in your life.”

   8. “If you had been wise, you would have refused to stoop to the
      methods of the firm, but you were not wise.”

   9. From this premise construct a valid syllogism: “All large cities
      owe their size to some commercial advantage.”

  10. Define and illustrate the following: analogy, hypothesis,
      thinking, connotative term, relative term.

  11. Distinguish between:
        (1) Analysis and deduction.
        (2) Logical division and classification.
        (3) Relative and absolute identity.


                                Set V.

_Answer ten questions._                                 Time, 2 hours.

Test the validity, giving reasons:

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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. Investigate by the Joint Method of Induction this question: “Why
      is John absent so often?”

   2. Explain and illustrate:
        (1) contradictory propositions,
        (2) illicit middle,
        (3) obversion,
        (4) contraversion,
        (5) synthesis.

   3. State and exemplify the rules of logical division.

   4. Write a theme of at least 150 words on one of the following:
        (1) Induction as the Discoverer’s Method.
        (2) A Rational View of Success.

   5. Define logically:
        (1) teaching,
        (2) deduction,
        (3) education,
        (4) analysis,
        (5) money.

   6. Distinguish between the extension and intension of terms.

   7. Exemplify:
        (1) an absolute term,
        (2) the complete method,
        (3) non connotative terms,
        (4) fallacy of accident,
        (5) hypothesis.

   8. “Educated among savages, he could not be expected to know the
      customs of polite society.” Is this valid? Reasons.

   9. “The signs indicate that you are either stupid or unprepared; but
      the past proves that you are not the former.” Test the validity.

  10. Discuss comprehensively one of the following topics:
        (1) The Fallacies.
        (2) Thinking.
        (3) Abbreviated Arguments.


                                Set IV.

_Answer ten questions._                                 Time, 2 hours.

   1. Exemplify:
        (1) the law of variation in the extension and intension of
            terms,
        (2) a distributed predicate.

   2. Indicate with explanation the logical errors:
        (1) A teacher assumes that the “bad boy of the school” is going
            to cause trouble in her room.
        (2) All the men of the Commission are fair minded men, hence
            they will render a fair decision.

   3. What experimental method of induction is the most positive in its
      conclusion? Illustrate this method.

   4. State and illustrate the rules of logical definition.

   5. Obvert each of the four logical propositions. Explain the
      principle involved.

      Test the validity of the following arguments:

   6. “Horses, not being human, cannot reason.”

   7. “Only the industrious deserve to succeed and you have never done
      a hard day’s work in your life.”

   8. “If you had been wise, you would have refused to stoop to the
      methods of the firm, but you were not wise.”

   9. From this premise construct a valid syllogism: “All large cities
      owe their size to some commercial advantage.”

  10. Define and illustrate the following: analogy, hypothesis,
      thinking, connotative term, relative term.

  11. Distinguish between:
        (1) Analysis and deduction.
        (2) Logical division and classification.
        (3) Relative and absolute identity.


                                Set V.

_Answer ten questions._                                 Time, 2 hours.

Test the validity, giving reasons:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching

A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching

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