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What relationship exists between these two statements?
Some pictures are beautiful art.
Some pictures are not beautiful art.
What is subcontrariety?
What relationship exists between these two statements?
Some feminists are feminine.
All feminists are feminine.
What is superimplication?
What relationship exists between these two statements?
All Christians are forgiven, sinners.
Some Christians are forgiven, sinners.
What is subimplication?
What relationship exists between these two statements?
All french fries are greasy food.
No french fries are greasy food.
What is contrariety?
What relationship exists between these two statements?
All cowboys are rough men.
Some cowboys are not rough men.
What is a contradiction?
Identify the relationship from the square of opposition.
If the universal statement is true, the particular must be true.
What is subimplication?
What type of statement is the following A, E, I, O?
Most of the towers were very tall.
What is an I statement?
Identify the relationship from the Square of Opposition.
Both statements can be false, but they cannot both be true.
What is contrariety?
Translate the statement into a standard categorical form. Do not abbreviate.
Many law students do not study logic.
What is Some law students are not logic studiers?
What is the quality of the following statements?
Every good boy deserves fudge.
What is affirmative?
Write out the subcontrariety of the following statement.
Some acids are peptides.
What is Some acids are not peptides?
In the given syllogism write down the Major, Minor, and Middle terms.
No Danaans are Trojans, so no Teucrians are Danaans, because all Teucrians are Trojans.
What is...
Major: Danaans
Minor: Teucrians
Middle: Trojans
Rewrite the given syllogism so that it is in standard categorical form and order. Do not abbreviate.
Some magnets are not metals, since no metals are organic polymers, but some magnets are organic polymers.
What is...
No metals are organic polymers.
Some magnets are organic polymers.
∴ Some magnets are not metals.
Write the mood and figure for the given syllogism.
No fish are mammals.
No fish are snakes.
So no snakes are mammals.
What is EEE-3
Rewrite this syllogism in standard order and give its mood and figure.
All combatants are fighters, so all Spartans are fighters, since all Spartans are combatants.
What is...
All combatants are fighters.
All Spartans are combatants.
Therefore, all Spartans are fighters.
AAA-1
Develop your own standard order syllogism that meets the requirements of the following form...
AEE-1
Example...
All women are people.
No men are women.
Therefore, no men are people.
Develop your own standard order syllogism that meets the requirements of the following form...
AII-3
Example...
All men are people.
Some men are fathers.
Therefore, some fathers are people.
For the given syllogism, write out the schema, and find the mood and figure...
All lawsuits are civil cases. Therefore, some lawsuits are not criminal cases, because no criminal cases are civil cases.
Schema:
No P are M
All S are M
Some S are not P
Mood and Figure: EAO-2
Find the fallacy or fallacies of the following syllogism...
All theology is a study in infinity, so all calculus problems are theology, because all calculus problems are a study in infinity.
What is the undistributed middle?
Write a schema of a syllogism that has the given fallacies.
Illicit major, illicit minor
What is...
Some P is M
Some S is not M
∴ No S is P
For the given form, write out the schema, and determine the fallacy made.
AAO-4
What is...
Schema:
All P is M
All M is S
∴ Some S is not P
Fallacy: Two affirmative premises and a negative conclusion.
For the following statement write two equivalent immediate inferences. Identify each immediate inference as converse, obverse, or contrapositive.
All service is profitable work.
What is...
No service is non-profitable work. (Obverse)
All non-profitable work is non-service (Contrapositive)
For the following statement write two equivalent immediate inferences. Identify each immediate inference as converse, obverse, or contrapositive.
No Europeans are Africans.
What is...
All Europeans are non-Africans (Obverse)
No Africans are Europeans. (Converse)
Identify each statement as hypothetical, indefinite, or singular. Then translate the statement into categorical form.
If a number is odd then it is not a multiple of two.
What is...
Hypothetical
No odd numbers are multiples of two.
Identify each statement as hypothetical, indefinite, or singular. Then translate the statement into categorical form.
Students will graduate this spring.
What is...
Indefinite
Some students will be spring graduates.