Definitions
The disposition (or location) of terms in the premises.
What is figure?
The mnemonic device word for the syllogism in which both premises and the conclusion are "A" statements.
What is BARBARA?
The three kinds of enthymemes.
What are the First Order, Second Order, and Third Order?
The two valid moods of conditional syllogisms.
What are Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens?
The two types of sorites.
What are Aristotelian and Goclenian?
The disposition of the premises according to quantity and quality.
What is mood?
Figure of a CAMESTRES syllogism.
What is 2nd figure?
The order of this enthymeme:
John is an atheist.
Therefore, John disbelieves in God.
What is the First Order?
The invalid moods of disjunctive syllogisms.
What is Ponendo Tollens?
Providing the missing conclusions in a sorites.
What is extrapolation?
A syllogism that does not contain both of the necessary premises - or contains both of its premises but is missing a conclusion.
What is enthymeme?
Mnemonic device word for the following syllogism:
All roses are flowers.
No flowers are trees.
Therefore, no trees are roses.
What is CAMENES?
The missing premise of this enthymeme:
John is an atheist.
Therefore, John disbelieves in God.
What is "Atheists disbelieve in God."?
The validity of a sorites depends on this.
What is the validity of its component parts?
The name of this sorites:
All A is B
All B is C
All C is D
All D is E
Therefore, all A is E
What is Aristotelian Sorites?
The 3 kinds of hypothetical syllogisms.
What are the conditional, the disjunctive, and the conjunctive?
The syllogisms that reduce to DARII.
What are DARAPTI, DISAMIS, DATISI and DIMARIS?
The missing premise of this enthymeme:
Greek generals are people who are skilled in battle.
Therefore, Alexander is skilled in battle.
What is "Alexander is a Greek general."?
The steps for testing the validity of sorites.
What are:
1. Put into standard form.
2. Provide missing conclusions.
3. Test each resulting syllogism for validity. ?
Unites the subject of the last proposition with the predicate of the first and moves from greater extension to lesser extension.
What is Goclenian Sorites?
A chain argument which, through a chain of premises, connects the subject of the first premise with the predicate of the conclusion.
What is a sorites?
The purpose of the "M" in the syllogism mnemonic device name.
What is transposition of the premises? (Make the minor premise the major, and the major the minor.)
The missing conclusion of this enthymeme:
Homework is due on Tuesday.
Today is Tuesday.
What is "Therefore, homework is due today."?
The rules for sorites.
What are:
1. Only the premise containing the minor term may be particular.
2. Only the premise containing the major term may be negative. ?
The extrapolated form of these first two premises of a sorites with an extrapolated conclusion:
All students of logic are good students.
All good students read this logic book.
What is:
All good students read this logic book.
All students of logic are good students.
Therefore, all students of logic read this logic book.?