Law School
Mary, Mary, Quite Subcontrary
Logical Relationships
Down with Subalterns
Potpourri
100

Subcontraries may at the same time both be true, but cannot at the same time both be false. 

Third Law of Opposition 

100

Two statements are subcontrary if they differ in quality and are both what quantity? 

What is particular? 

100

Two relationships categorical statements can have to one another. 

What is opposition and equivalence? 

100

Subalterns have the same quality but....?

What is differ in quantity? 

100

A simple concept used to define a more complex concept. 

What is note?
200

Contradictories cannot at the same time be true nor at the same time false. 

What is the First Law of Opposition? 

200

Which statements are subcontrary? 

What are I and O statements?

200

Statements that affirm and deny the same predicate of the same subject. 

What are statements of opposition? 
200

Which two pairs of statements are subalterns?

What is A and I and E and O? 

200

The first mental act of logic

What is simple apprehension?

300

Subalterns may both be true or both be false. 

What is the Fourth Law of Opposition?
300

If "Some costumes are store-bought" is true, then what is the truth value of "Some costumes are not store-bought". 

What is false?

300

Name the four different ways statements can be opposite to one another. 

What is contradictory, contrary, subcontrary, and subalternate? 

300

True or False: if the universal is true, then the particular is false. 

What is false? 

(If the universal is true, then the particular is also true.)

300

Philosopher who studied the teachings of Plato under another philosopher name Plotinus. 

Porphyry 

400

Contraries cannot at the same time both be true, but can at the same time both be false. 

What is the Second Law of Opposition? 

400

Opposite of subcontrary statements

What is contrary statements? (A and E statements)

400

Three ways terms can be divided according to their signification  

What is univocal, equivocal, and analogous terms?

400
False or True: If the particular is false, the universal is false. 

What is true? 

400

Father of Logic

Who is Aristotle?

500

If an A statement is true, then what is the true value of an I statement according to the Fourth Law of Opposition?

What is true? 

500

Is it possible for subcontraries to both be false at the same time. 

What is never? 

500

Three kinds of supposition (example: man)

What is material, logical, and real supposition?

500

True or false: If "Some men are not happy," then we know that "No men are happy." 

What is false? 

500

Famously said man was a "featherless biped"

Who is Plato?
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