Translations
Square of Opposition
Relationships of Equivalence
Syllogisms and Validity
Grab Bag
100

This is how you know a proposition is an O type proposition.

The quantifier is "Some...not"

100

Name the relationship between these propositions

All french fries are greasy food
No french fries are greasy food

100

What is the process for performing conversion?

Swap the subject and predicate.

100

Correctly name the subject and predicate of the conclusion.

Subject: minor term.

Predicate: major term.

100

This type of logic moves from specific cases to general principles

Inductive logic

200

Name the 4 components of a categorical proposition in the correct order.

Quantifier, subject, copula, predicate

200

Draw the Square of Opposition and label it correctly

 

200

What is a "complement," and how do you provide a term's complement in a proposition?

Complement: everything that is not represented by the term.

Add non- to the term.

200

Provide the major, minor, and middle terms for the following syllogism:

Some slithy toves are gyre and gimblers.

No Jubjub birds are gyre and gimblers.

Therefore, no Jubjub birds are slithy toves

Major: slithy toves

Minor: Jubjub birds

Middle: gyre and gimblers

200

What are the letters that are conventionally used to abbreviate each term in a syllogism, and why were those letters chosen?

P: major term, since it is the Predicate of the conclusion

S: minor term, since it is the Subject of the conclusion

M: Middle term


300

Translate: There hasn’t been a movie since movies started being made that is longer than 3 hours

No movies are spectacles that are longer than 3 hours

300

For the proposition: "All movies are 14 hours long"
Provide the proposition derived from subimplication.

Some movies are 14 hours long.

300

What is the process for performing obversion?

Step 1: Change the quality of the subject term.

Step 2: Change the quality of the predicate term to its complement.

300

Give the mood and figure of the following syllogism: Some Romans are not Greek speakers, because some Romans are not Latin speakers, and all Greek speakers are Latin speakers.

AIO-2

300

Define "tenacity"

Persistent in maintaining, adhering to, or seeking something valued or desired

Determination, perseverance, not willing to quit, stick-with-it-ness

400

Translate: "I used to think that every church has a steeple, but the other day I saw one that didn’t"

Some churches are/are not buildings with steeples

400

If E is False, O is...

Undetermined

400

Perform conversion on the following proposition: Some football players are not Super Bowl players.

Not allowed

400

Write a counterexample for the following:

Some mice are not lab specimens.
All mice are rodents.
∴ Some rodents are lab specimens.

Must be OAI-3, true premises, false conclusion

400

What is Mr. Pyke's son's name?

Elias

500

Translate into a syllogism: Whenever it rains in our area, our friend Jared's ceiling leaks. Often in July, we get heavy rains in our area. So, Jared's ceiling leaks sometimes in July.

All times it rains are times Jared's ceiling leaks.

Some July days are rainy days.

Therefore, some July days are days that Jared's ceiling leaks.

500

Some government documents are not boring.
Some government documents are boring.

If the first proposition is false, the second is...

True

500

Perform contraposition on the following proposition: Some football players are not Super Bowl players.

Step 1: Some football players are non-(Super Bowl players).
Step 2: Some non-(Super Bowl players) are football players.
Step 3: Some non-(Super Bowl players) are not non-football players.

500

Evaluate this syllogism with the 7 rules of validity:

Some nurses are not licensed medical practitioners.

Some graduates of medical school are nurses.

All graduates of medical school are licensed medical practitioners.

Rules 3, 4 (illicit minor), and 7

500

Give an example of an enthymeme.

I want to eat good things, so I want to eat this avocado.

All good things are things I want to eat.

(All avocados are good things.)

Therefore, all of this avocado is a thing I want to eat.