Vocabulary
A sentence or statement which expresses truth or falsity.
Rules having to do with the terms in a syllogism
Terminological Rules
A statement that is universal and affirmative
What is an A statement?
Occurs when a syllogism has more than three terms
What is the Fallacy of Four Terms?
The word in a proposition that connects or relates the subject to the predicate
What is the copula?
The completely articulated sum of the intelligible notes represented by a concept
What is comprehension?
Statements that are both universals but differ in quality.
What is the Rule of Contraries?
The act which a statement must do to be considered a proposition.
What is affirming and denying?
Occurs when a term in a syllogism is used ambiguously
What is the Fallacy of Equivocation?
A simple concept used to define a more complex concept; the building blocks of comprehension
What is a note?
The permanent nature of something that makes it what it is
What is essence?
Subcontraries may at the same time both be true, but cannot at the same time both be false
What is the Third Law of Opposition?
What is the conclusion?
Occurs when the middle term is not distributed in either premise
What is the Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle?
The verbal expression of deductive inference
What is a syllogism?
The status of a term in regard to its extension
What is Distribution?
If a term is not distributed in the premises, then it must not be distributed in the conclusion.
What is the Third Rules of the Syllogism?
The premise in a syllogism which contains the minor term
What is the minor premise?
Occurs when both premises in a syllogism are negative
What is the Fallacy of Exclusive Premises?
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Terms that, although spelled and pronounced exactly alike, have completely different and unrelated meanings.
What is an equivocal term?
If two premises are affirmative, the conclusion must also be affirmative
The Sixth Rule of the Syllogism
The form which a statement must be in to be handled logically
Occurs when the Major term is distributed in the conclusion but not in premise in which it occurs
What is the Fallacy of Illicit Major?
accomplished by interchanging the subject and the predicate and changing the statement from universal to particular
What is Partial Conversion?