A Class Room Logic: Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching — John Shaqi
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
(2b) Indicate the logical terms in the sentences under 1b.
(3a) The logical characteristics of the term _teacher_ are
(1) general term,
(2) distributive term,
(3) concrete term,
(4) connotative term,
(5) positive term,
(6) relative term.
(3b) The logical characteristics of other terms are as follows:
(1) Goodness――general, abstract, non-connotative, positive, abstract.
(2) Soft――general, concrete, non-connotative, positive, “hard” is its
opposite, “not-soft” is its contradictory, absolute.
(3) Disagreeable――general, concrete, non-connotative, “agreeable”
is its opposite, “not-disagreeable” is its contradictory,
nego-positive, absolute.
(4) Aristotle――singular, concrete, non-connotative, positive,
absolute.
(5) Class――general, collective, concrete, connotative, positive,
relative.
(3c) Give the logical characteristics of the following terms: justice,
Abraham Lincoln, tree, library, America, president, principle, sympathy,
dumb, nation.
=16. REVIEW QUESTIONS.=
(1) What is the connection between logical thinking and language?
(2) Why is _man_ a categorematic word?
(3) Why is _beautifully_ syncategorematic?
(4) Distinguish between singular and general terms.
(5) Show how a collective term may be used in a distributive sense.
(6) Why are the words _tree_ and _book_ distributive?
(7) Distinguish between concrete and abstract terms.
(8) Define and illustrate a non-connotative term.
(9) Why are concrete general terms connotative?
(10) Distinguish between positive and privative terms.
(11) Why is not the word _immoral_ negative?
(12) Give the opposite of “hot.” What is the contradictory of “hot”?
(13) Distinguish by definition and illustration between relative and
absolute terms.
(14) What is the correlate of the word _effect_?
=17. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.=
(1) Is it possible to think independent of language?
(2) May words be spoken or written without thought? Illustrate.
(3) Are categorematic words always logical terms?
(4) Must all the words of a logical term be categorematic?
(5) Are pronouns and auxiliary verbs categorematic?
(6) Indicate the logical connection between the terms of a
proposition and the termini of a railroad.
(7) Show that attribute is a broader term than quality.
(8) Is the word _Washington_ general or singular? Give reasons.
(9) Make the word _dog_ a singular term.
(10) Give an illustration where the word _class_ would not be
collective.
(11) “All the members of the baseball team are star players.”
How has the term _star players_ been used, collectively or
distributively?
(12) Why may the term _New York City_ be connotative to a New Yorker
and non-connotative to a Patagonian?
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