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) “Haste makes waste.”
(3) “Few men know how to act under stress.”
(4) “All which seems to ring true is not true.”
(5) “Members alone are admitted.”
(6) “None but men of integrity need apply.”
(7) “Horses trot.”
(8) “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake.”
The first proposition is an exclusive and may be made logical by
converting and calling it an A, viz.: “All who ride in parlor cars are
first-class passengers.” (A)
The second is indefinite and elliptical and is made logical by
prefixing the universal quantity sign and expressing in terms of the
four elements. The logical form is, “All who make haste are those who
are wasteful.” (A)
The third is plurative in nature and means, “Most men do not know how
to act under stress.” It would be classed as an O.
The fourth is partitive in nature because of the ambiguous use of
“all――not.” It means, “Some who seem to ring true are not true.” (O)
The fifth is an exclusive. By converting and changing to an A the
proposition takes the logical form, “All who are admitted are members.”
The sixth is likewise an exclusive, the logical form being, “All who
apply must be men of integrity.”
The seventh is an elliptical proposition. Logical form: “All horses are
trotting animals.”
The eighth is an inverted or poetical proposition. It is made logical
by interchanging subject and predicate. Logical form: “Those who are
persecuted for righteousness sake are blessed.”
(2b) Classify the attending propositions and change to the logical form,
if necessary:
(1) “Only truthful men are honest.”
(2) “The stokers alone were saved.”
(3) “All who run do not think.”
(4) “Honesty is the best policy.”
(5) “They laugh that win.”
(6) “The good alone are happy.”
(7) “Knowledge is power.”
(8) “Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the
dust.”
=12. REVIEW QUESTIONS.=
(1) Define and illustrate logical propositions.
(2) Define and exemplify the three kinds of logical propositions.
(3) What are the usual quantity signs of the four kinds of
propositions?
(4) Name and define the four elements of a logical proposition.
(5) Select from the printed page five propositions which are not
expressed in terms of the four elements, and so express them.
(6) Distinguish between logical and grammatical subject; likewise
between logical and grammatical predicate.
(7) Define and illustrate the four kinds of categorical propositions.
(8) What makes an understanding of the four logical propositions so
important?
(9) Give the unusual quantity signs of the logical propositions.
(10) What should guide one in making an indefinite proposition logical?
(11) How are general truths usually classified?
(12) Change _birds fly_ to the logical form.
(13) How many and what kinds of grammatical sentences are logical?
(14) How would the logician deal with interrogative sentences?
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