Logic
The type of logic that is mostly deductive, concentrates on understanding the form of an argument, and can be analyzed using symbols.
What is formal logic?
The type of logic that is mostly inductive, concentrates on understanding the content of an argument, and deals with ordinary language arguments between people.
What is informal logic?
A tool that helps with inference that aids in determining what inferences can be made with different propositions that are in opposition to each other.
What is the square of opposition?
The relationship between A and O propositions and E and I propositions on the square of opposition.
What is contradiction?
The arrangement of the terms in a proposition so that the proposition either affirms or denies something about a specific topic.
What is categorical form?
A single declaration of facts or opinions.
What is a proposition?
A proposition that affirms something about some of the members of a category represented by a term.
What is a particular affirmative?
A statement that affirms or denies something about all of a category represented by a term.
What is a universal proposition?
Am, is, are, was, and were.
What are verbs of being or being verbs?
A syllogism in which the premises and the conclusions are written in standard form, such as S is P.
What is a categorical syllogism?
A proposition that denies something about some of the members of a category represented by a term.
What is a particular negative?
The logic name for the being verb in a proposition.
What is the copula?
Represented by "O" in logic.
What is a particular negative proposition?
A proposition that affirms something about all of a category.
What is a universal affirmative?
What is affirmo?
The word or phrase that follows the verb and renames or describes the subject.
What is a predicate term?
Represented by "I" in logic.
What is a particular affirmative proposition?
A proposition that denies something about all of a category.
What is a universal negative?
Contradiction, contrary, and subcontrary
What are the relationships of opposition?
Represented by "A" in logic.
What are universal affirmative propositions?
Represented by "E" in logic.
What is a universal negative proposition?
A method of determining the validity of a formal argument in which the conclusion must be true if the premises used to support it are true.
What is deductive reasoning?
Pertains to whether the proposition is universal or particular.
What is the quantity of a proposition?
Basic building block is a category of things called a term, and building blocks are connected by being verbs.
What is categorical logic?
Basic building block is a statement called a proposition, and building blocks are connected by logical operators.
What is propositional logic?
A class of things represented by a term.
What is a category?
A syllogism that draws a conclusion from a cause and effect relationship between possible scenarios.
What is a hypothetical syllogism?
Pertains to whether the proposition is affirmative or negative.
What is the quality of a proposition?
Simple apprehension, judgement, inference.
What are the three acts of the mind?
Appear to have the structure of a proposition, but do not have truth value because they are filled with absurdities or meaningless ideas.
What are nonsense sentences?
The recognition and naming or classification of an object or concept.
What is simple apprehension?
A thinking process that occurs when a person expresses a relationship between two terms.
What is judgement?