So, Hip to Be Square
These types of statements are Affirmative statements and are located on the left side of the Square of Opposition
What are A and I statements?
The location of the major term in a syllogism
What is the predicate of the conclusion?
What is in the major premise?
The number of terms a valid syllogism may have
What are three?
The significance of the verb, "sum," to syllogisms
In order for a statement to be in standard form, it must use a form of the verb, "to be"
These are popular informal forms of reasoning that are invalid or unhelpful
What are informal fallacies?
The five relationships symbolized on the Square of Opposition
What are contradiction, contrariety, subcontrariety, subimplication, and superimplication?
The validity of a syllogism is dependent only upon this
What is the syllogism's form?
The immediate inferences that are valid for E statements
What are obverse and converse?
What is "tu quoque?"
Changing the definition of a term in the middle of an argument
What is equivocation?
The relationship between A and O statements and E and I statements
What is contradiction?
The two methods by which syllogisms can be tested
Translate this inclusive: "You may paint it however you like."
All ways you like are ways you may paint it.
Any of the fallacies, which use the preposition meaning "to" in Latin
These are the three types of fallacies
What are fallacies of distraction, fallacies of ambiguity, and fallacies of form?
The way subimplication carries truth (in reference to quantity) on the Square of Opposition
What is down, from universal to particular statements? ("truth runs downhill")
Find the minor term:
All marsupials are pouch animals, and some marsupials are not Australian mammals; consequently, some Australian mammals are not pouch animals.
What is "Australian mammals?"
The invalid mixed hypothetical syllogisms
What are denying the antecedent and affirming the consequent?
If P, then Q
P
Therefore Q
What is "modus ponens?"
Identify the fallacy contained in this comment: "That chain letter is real! Just a week after I threw it away, I failed my logic test!"
What is "post hoc ergo propter hoc?"
In this relationship, both statements can be true, but they cannot both be false
What is subcontrariety?
Create a syllogism with an EAO schema.
No...
All...
Some...are not...
The steps taken to find the assumed statement in an enthymeme
1) locate the conclusion; 2) analyze other statements, locating major/minor premises; 3) put syllogism in standard order; 4) identify the missing terms; 5) find a middle term that will produce a valid syllogism
This logic term refers to the part of the statement after the "if" in hypothetical syllogisms
What is antecedent?
The term Bulverism came from this British author
Who was C.S. Lewis?