Distribution of Terms
The subject is distributed, and the predicate is undistributed.
What is an A statement?
When Rule 5 is broken; a negative conclusion (O or E statement) requires one negative premise
What is the Fallacy of Two Affirmative Premises and a Negative Conclusion?
Standard order of a categorical syllogism is.
What is major premise, minor premise, conclusion?
A term that, within a statement, refers to all members of its category.
What is a distributed term?
Universal statements distribute the ___.
What is the subject?
The subject is undistributed, and the predicate is distributed.
What is an O statement?
When Rule 3 is broken, invalid combinations are: OO, OE, EO, and EE.
What is the Fallacy of Two Negative Premises?
Usually starts with because, since, for, or given that.
What is a premise?
A deductive argument with one conclusion, two premises, and three terms.
What is a syllogism?
Abbreviated in a schema as M.
What is the middle term?
The subject is undistributed, and the predicate is undistributed.
What is an I statement?
When Rule 2 is broken, the major term is distributed in the conclusion but not the premise.
What is the Fallacy of an Illicit Major?
When Rule 1 is broken because the middle term is not distributed in either premise.
What is the Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle?
If and only if two statements can both be true but both cannot be false.
What is subcontrary?
Abbreviated in a schema as S.
What is the minor term?
The subject is distributed, and the predicate is distributed.
When Rule 2 is broken, the minor term is distributed in the conclusion but not the premise.
What is the Fallacy of an Illicit Minor?
Usually starts with therefore, thus, so, or in conclusion.
What is a conclusion?
If and only if two statements can both be false but cannot both be true.
What is contrary?
Negative statements distribute the ____.
What is the predicate?
a term that, within a statement, refers to all members of its category
What is a distributed term?
When Rule 4 is broken; if the conclusion is an A or I statement, then there cannot be an E or O premise
What is the Fallacy of a Negative Premise and an Affirmative Conclusion?
The relationship between a universal and particular statement of the same quality, in which the truth of the universal necessitates the truth of the particular.
What is a subimplication?
The relationship between a universal and particular statement of the same quality, in which the falsity of the particular necessitates the falsity of the universal.
What is a superimplication?
Abbreviated in a schema as P.
What is the major term?