Definitions
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5 Rules for Testing
The Syllogism
Potpourri
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It is a syllogism that shows a syllogism to be invalid by substituting terms to make the premises true and the conclusion false.
What is a counterexample?
100
It is a sentence that is true or false.
What is a statement?
100
It is the fallacy committed if the middle term is not distributed in the syllogism.
What is the fallacy of the undistributed middle?
100
It's a number between 1 to 4 identifying the placement of its middle term.
What is the figure of a syllogism?
100
There are 256 of these; 24 are valid ones.
What are forms of syllogisms.
200
It is a deductive argument with 3 terms, 2 premises and 1 conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
200
These are the 3 methods for defining terms.
What are genus & difference, examples and synonyms?
200
If this rule is broken, the fallacy of the illicit minor is committed (be specific).
What is: If the subject is distributed in the conclusion, it must also be distributed in the minor premise.
200
It is a three-letter description of the type of the types of categorical statements it contains when arranged in standard order.
What is the mood of a syllogism?
200
There are 232 of these.
What are invalid forms of syllogisms?
300
This term is found once in each premise.
What is the middle term?
300
It is a difference of opinion or perception.
What is an apparent disagreement?
300
This fallacy is committed if a syllogism has a form of EOO-4
What is the fallacy of 2 negative premises (2 neg prem).
300
This is a representation of a syllogism having statements in standard order with standard abbreviations of its terms.
What is a schema?
300
This method is used to determine the of a syllogism beyond doubt.
What are the five rules of validity?
400
This term is found in the predicate of the conclusion.
What is the major term?
400
This statement is the contraction of "All mechanical things are breakable things."
What is "Some mechanical things are not breakable things?"
400
State all the fallacies committed in the following schema: All P are M. Some M are S. So, No S are P.
What are: Undistributed Middle Illicit Minor 2 Affirmative Premises to 1 Negative Conclusion
400
The schema of OAI-4.
What is: Some P is not M All M is S Therefore Some S is P
400
It is another name for the associated fallacy.
What is the Existential Fallacy?
500
This argument is valid and has true premises.
What is a sound syllogism?
500
This statement is always false by logical structure.
What is a self-contradiction?
500
This is the HINT for 3 of the rules for testing validity of syllogisms.
What is the number of negative premises must equal the number of negative conclusions (0=0 or 1=1).
500
Write the form of the following argument: Some secret agents are not arrogant mothers, since some arrogant mothers are secretaries, but no secretaries are secret agents.
What is IEO-4
500
This fallacy is committed when a syllogism has 2 universal premises and a particular conclusion.
What is the Existential Fallacy?