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
(2) Kinds of logical propositions.
Categorical
Hypothetical
Disjunctive
(3) The four elements of a categorical proposition.
(4) Logical and grammatical subject and predicate distinguished.
(5) The four kinds of categorical propositions.
Universal affirmative A
Universal negative E
Particular affirmative I
Particular negative O
(6) Propositions which do not conform to the logical type.
Indefinite and elliptical
Grammatical sentences
Individual
Plurative
Partitive
Exceptive
Exclusive
Inverted
(7) Propositions not necessarily illogical.
Analytic and synthetic
Modal and pure
Truistic
(8) The relation between subject and predicate of the four logical
propositions.
Euler’s diagrams
Distribution of subject and predicate
Uaesneop
Asebinop
Saepeo
=10. SUMMARY.=
(1) A logical proposition is a judgment expressed in words.
(2) The three kinds of logical propositions are categorical,
hypothetical, disjunctive.
A categorical proposition is one in which the assertion is made
unconditionally.
A hypothetical proposition is one in which the assertion depends
upon a condition.
A disjunctive proposition is one which asserts an alternative.
The most common word-signs of the categorical proposition are “all,”
“no,” “some” and “some-not,” of the hypothetical, “if” and of the
disjunctive, “either-or.”
(3) Every logical categorical proposition has the four elements:
quantity sign, subject, copula and predicate.
The quantity sign indicates the extension of the proposition; the
logical subject is that of which something is affirmed or denied;
the logical predicate is the term which is affirmed or denied of the
subject; the copula is always some form of “to be” and is used to
connect subject and predicate. “_Not_” is sometimes used with the
copula.
The statements of ordinary conversation are usually not expressed in
terms of the four elements, but must be, before they can be used in
testing arguments.
(4) One word usually constitutes the grammatical subject while
a word with all its modifiers goes to make up the logical subject.
The verb with any predicate word is the grammatical predicate. The
logical predicate is all which follows the copula――it may include the
predicate-word and all its modifiers as well as the modified object.
(5) Categorical propositions are divided into four kinds; universal
affirmative (A), universal negative (E), particular affirmative (I),
particular negative (O). For the sake of brevity these four are
respectively denoted by the vowels A, E, I, O.
An A proposition is one in which the predicate affirms something of
_all_ of the logical subject.
An E proposition is one in which the predicate denies something of
_all_ of the logical subject.
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