Laws and Basics
Any statement is either true or false.
What is the Law of Excluded Middle?
A sentence that has a truth value.
What is a statement?
"This statement is false," represents what.
What is nonsense?
A syllogism is valid if and only if...
What is the premises imply the conclusion?
A Logical argument
What is a set of statements, one of which appears to be implied or supported by the others.
The law of identity states...
What is: If a statement is true, then it is true.
A statement that is false by logical structure.
What is a self-contradiction?
Name 3 of the 4 possible relationships between statements.
What are (options) consistency, implication, logical equivalence, or independence.
A valid syllogism with true premises.
What is a sound syllogism?
3 types of terms in an argument.
What are Major, Minor, and Middle?
Name 3 of the 5 types of definitions.
What are (options): Lexical, stipulative, theoretical, persuasive, or precising.
What happens when two statements cannot both be true at the same time.
What is a real disagreement?
Astatement that is true by logical structure.
What is a tautology?
The truth will never lead to this.
What is a lie?
A deductive argument with one conclusion, two premises, and three terms.
Waht is a syllogism?
A statement cannot be both true and false.
What is the Law of Noncontradiction?
A representation of a syllogism in standard order with standard abbreviations for its terms.
What is the Schema?
Name the two types of statements.
What are supported and self-supporting?
The validity of syllogisms depends soley on their...
What is form?
The mood + the figure of a syllogism is...
What is the Form of a syllogism?
The science and art of reasoning well.
What is Formal Logic?
Mood (in logic)
What is the 3-letter representation of the types of categorical statements when arranged in standard order?
"It's cold outside," and "it's warm outside," are an example of what.
What is an apparent disagreement?
Name four of the six possible falacies a syllogism can commit.
What are (options) the fallacy of: undistributed middle, illicit major, illicit minor, two negative premises, negative premise and affirmative conclusion, and affirmative premises and a negative conclusion.
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What are the Figures of syllogisms?