All cases of A not being B are cases of C being D.
This is a case of A not being B.
.'. This is a case of C being D.
_Denial of Consequent_ = Camestres.
Either A is E or C is D.
C is not D.
.'. A is B.
is equal to
If A is not B, C is D.
C is not D.
.'. A is B.
is equal to
All cases of A not being B are cases of C being D.
This is not a case of C being D.
.'. This is not a case of A being B.
§ 767. The other moods of the first and second figures can be obtained
by varying the quality of the antecedent and consequent in the major
premiss and reducing the quantity of the minor.
§ 768. The invalid destructive moods correspond with the two invalid
types of the partly conjunctive syllogism, and have the same fallacies
of simple syllogism underlying them. Affirmation of the antecedent of
a disjunctive is equivalent to the semi-conjunctive fallacy of denying
the antecedent, and therefore involves the ordinary syllogistic
fallacy of illicit process of the major.
Affirmation of the consequent of a disjunctive is equivalent to the
same fallacy in the semi-conjunctive form, and therefore involves the
ordinary syllogistic fallacy of undistributed middle.
_Affirmation of Antecedent_ = _Illicit Major_.
Either A is B or C is D.
A is B.
.'. C is not D.
is equal to
If A is not B, C is D.
A is B.
.'. C is not D.
is equal to
All cases of A not being B are cases of C being D.
This is not a case of A not being B.
.'. This is not a case of C not being D.
_Affirmation of Consequent_ = _Undistributed Middle_.
Either A is B or C is D.
C is D.
is equal to
If A is not B, C is D.
C is D.
is equal to
All cases of A not being B are cases of C being D.
This is a case of C being D.
§ 769. So far as regards the consequent, the two species of complex
reasoning hitherto discussed are identical both in appearance and
reality. The apparent difference of procedure in the case of the
antecedent, namely, that it is affirmed in the partly conjunctive, but
denied in the disjunctive syllogism, is due merely to the fact that in
the disjunctive proposition the truth of the consequent is involved in
the falsity of the antecedent, so that the antecedent being
necessarily negative, to deny it in appearance is in reality to assert
it.
CHAPTER XXV.
_The Disjunctive Syllogism regarded as an Immediate Inference_.
§ 770. If no stress be laid on the transition from disjunctive
hypothesis to fact, the disjunctive syllogism will run with the same
facility as its predecessor into the moulds of immediate inference.
§ 771.
_Denial of Antecedent_. Subalternation.
Either A is B or C is D, Every case of A not being B
is a case of C being D.
.'. A not being B, C is D. .'. Some case of A not being B
is a case of C being D.
§ 772.
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