Translating Propositions
This is the whole point of an argument.
What is a conclusion?
All S is P.
What is an "A" proposition?
Another name for the relationships of equivalence.
What is Immediate Inference?
A syllogism is limited to this number of terms.
What is three?
Syllogisms that are factually accurate and correct.
What are True Syllogisms?
The term in a proposition that is what the whole argument is about.
What is the subject?
The relationship between A and O and E and I propositions.
What is Contradiction?
The relationship of equivalence that occurs when you switch the subject and the predicate of a proposition.
What is Conversion?
A syllogism in which the premises and conclusions are written in standard categorical form.
What is a categorical syllogism?
Syllogisms that are structured properly.
What are Valid Syllogisms?
A sentence that has a truth-value.
What is a proposition?
The relationship between A and E propositions.
What is Contrariety?
The converse relationship preserves equivalence for these propositions.
The predicate term of the conclusion.
What is major term?
This occurs when the middle term is used in two different ways.
What is Equivocation?
The mental act of putting things into categories.
What is simple apprehension?
An idea or truth already accepted as true.
What is a priori?
The relationship of equivalence that applies to all of the categorical propositions.
What is Obversion?
The term that the major and minor terms have in common.
What is middle term?
Syllogisms that are both true and valid.
What are Sound Syllogisms?
What is a copula?
The relationship where both propositions can be true, but they cannot both be false.
What is Subcontrariety?
The relationship of equivalence that occurs when you perform obversion, then conversion, then obversion.
What is Contraposition?
A statement of rational reasons for or against and idea or action with the intent to persuade.
What is argument?
Terms that do not represent all of the members of their class.
What is Undistributed Terms?