 | 1867 - 878 pagini
...which are puro categorioals. Let us 'take a syllogism of this sort, and examine and it, eg :— All men are mortal« ; Socrates is a man ; Therefore, Socrates is mortal. Now, upon reflection, it will appear evident, in the first p that the validity of tho argument in such а... | |
 | Robert Lewis Dabney - 1875 - 388 pagini
...nothing, and is worthless, or it begs the question. They are fond of taking such instances as this : " All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal." Now say they : unless it has been ascertained that Socrates is mortal, the assertion that all men are mortal,... | |
 | Arthur Frederick Sheldon - 1917 - 200 pagini
...Example III. "Socrates is mortal, for he is a man." This argument in its complete form would be : All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. Now, if we examine the forms into which each of the above arguments has been thrown, we shall notice among... | |
 | Ruth Morse - 1991 - 336 pagini
...which the most obvious is its compression: 'Socrates must die' replaces the traditional syllogistic proof (All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal.). Or an enthymeme might be based on shared opinion, or even on a dubious premise. When an irate parent... | |
 | Ruth Morse - 1991 - 336 pagini
...which the most obvious is its compression: 'Socrates must die' replaces the traditional syllogistic proof (All men are mortaL Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortaLl. Or an enthymeme might be based on shared opinion, or even on a dubious premise. When an irate... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1992 - 748 pagini
...formal. We may make this clear by applying it to the case of the syllogism. Traditional logic says : 'All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal.' Now it is clear that what we mean to assert, to begin with, is only that the premisses imply the conclusion,... | |
 | K. C. Cole - 1998 - 228 pagini
...Tavris offers up a very old lesson in logic taught in all introductory texts. The reasoning goes: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. Now try it this way: All men are mortal. Alice is . . . ? Aristotle was trying to show that you can't contradict... | |
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... be a world in which one and one are two. It is not open to us, as pure mathematicians or logicians, to mention anything at all, because, if we do so, we introduce something irrelevant and not formal. We may make this clear by applying it to the case... 