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. All successful teachers are industrious, but you are not
industrious because you are not successful.
2. John was a troublesome boy in the first and second grades,
therefore he is going to make trouble for the third grade
teacher.
3. Teaching is the art of imparting knowledge. Criticise, giving
reasons. Define correctly, pointing out the essentials.
4. Explain the extensional and intensional use of terms and
illustrate the law of variation.
5. Describe Mill’s experimental methods of induction. Symbolize the
joint method.
6. Define the following: analysis, law of identity, obversion.
7. Illustrate the laws of thought.
8. Write on one of the following topics:
(1) Complete Method,
(2) Right Thinking.
9. “The science of logic never made a man reason rightly.” Discuss
this question.
10. Explain and illustrate the enthymeme.
Set VI.
_Answer ten questions._ Time, 2 hours.
1. Exemplify the following:
(1) illicit minor,
(2) begging the question,
(3) law of excluded middle,
(4) inductive method.
2. Write a short theme on one of these topics:
(1) Thinking.
(2) Logical Terms.
Test the validity of the attending arguments, giving reasons:
3. “He who talks much usually says little and you are certainly a
great talker.”
4. “You must be industrious, since only such truly succeed.”
5. Illustrate and give the characteristic marks of the joint method
of induction.
6. Summarize the benefits to be derived from a study of logic.
7. State and illustrate the rules of logical definition.
8. Distinguish between
(1) extension and intension,
(2) opposite and contradictory terms,
(3) analysis and synthesis.
9. Define and illustrate hypothesis, obversion, sorites,
hypothetical argument.
10. Explain and illustrate the three forms of induction.
11. Distinguish logically between a teacher and an instructor.
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Bradley. The Principles of Logic. London. 1886.
Creighton. Introductory Logic. The MacMillan Co., New York. 1905.
Dewey. Studies in Logical Theory. The University of Chicago Press.
1903.
Fowler. The Elements of Deductive and Inductive Logic. Oxford. 1905.
Hibben. Logic, Deductive and Inductive. Chas. Scribner’s Sons, New
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Hyslop. Elements of Logic. Chas. Scribner’s Sons, New York. 1905.
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