Introduction to Formal Logic
The art and science of reasoning
What is logic?
The fallacy of Bulverism.
What is an attack on a person's source of belief?
The truth or falsity of a proposition or statement
What is truth-value?
The logic name for the being verb in a proposition.
What is copula?
The letter or symbol for which the subject term is represented.
What is S?
A word or phrase that represents a class of related things
What is a term?
I tried to talk to that new boy yesterday and he immediately stuck out his tongue. Boys are so rude!
What is hasty generalization?
What is contrariety?
The whole point of the argument or the proposition for which someone is arguing.
What is conclusion?
Some S is not P.
What is an O statement?
One of the two branches in the study of logic centering on the form of an argument
What is formal logic?
You have gotten angry before also, I just did something about it.
What is Tu QuoQue?
The recognition and naming or classification of an object or concept
What is simple apprehension?
The term in a proposition that contains the subject of a categorical syllogism.
What is minor term?
What is an E Statement?
An idea or truth accepted as already true
What is a foundational belief?
The fallacy that judges the whole from a part.
What is fallacy of composition?
What is OAO-3?
A reason given that leads to the arguer's conclusion.
What is premise?
The relationship of opposition that states that I and O cannot both be false, but they can both be true.
What is subcontrariety?
A type of logic that deals with statements and their relationship to each other.
What is categorical logic?
A paradox studied by a school of Philosophers in third century BC which did not fit Aristotle's system of logic.
What is the liar's paradox?
P then Q. ~Q. Thus ~P.
What is Modus Tollens?
The branch of logic pioneered by Aristotle that deals primarily with categories of things where an argument can be respresented with symbols
What is categorical logic?
The falsity of the particular implies the falsity of the universal.
What is superimplication?