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The Science and Art of reasoning well.
What is Logic?
Any statement is either true or false.
What is the Law of Excluded Middle?
A statement cannot be both true and false.
What is the Law of Noncontradiction?
If a statement is true, then it is true.
What is the Law of Identity?
Deals with proper modes of reasoning.
What is Formal Logic?
Reasoning with probability from examples or experience to general rules.
What is Induction?
Deals with operations of thinking that are indirectly related to reasoning.
What is Informal logic?
Two branches of deductive reasoning are...
What is categorical and propositional logic?
A concept that is expressed precisely in words.
What is a term?
A word whose extent is unclear.
What is a vague word?
True or False
A precising definition is not dependent on the situation in which it is used.
What is false?
A ____________ is a statement that gives the meaning of a term.
What is the definition?
A word that can have more than one possible meaning.
What is a ambiguous word?
What is a stipulative definition?
"By small I mean five dollars"
Is an example of what kind of definition?
What is a precising definition?
A _________ of a term is a term that is more specific, narrow, or concrete than the original term and is included by it.
What is species?
The __________ of a term is the sum of all the individual objects described by it.
What is the extension?
A ___________ is a sentence that is either true or false.
What is a statement?
Name three types of sentences that are not statements.
What are questions, commands, and nonsense?
A statement that is always true by logical structure.
What is a tautology?
Two statements are related by __________ if the truth of one requires the truth of the other.
What is implication?
If two statements imply one another they are said to be...
What is logically equivalent?
An _________ disagreement is a difference of opinion or perception.
What is apparent?
A term that, within a statement, refers to all members of its class.
What is a distributed term?
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 subimplication?