 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 678 pages
...the conclusion is, that they have (or that they have not) the second. Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Literary Collections - 1873 - 382 pages
...performing the essential processes of reasoning. We have been saying in thousands of treatises on logic, All men are mortal : Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. The elephant reasons: All boys are bun-giving animals; that biped is a boy ; therefore I will hold out... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1876 - 584 pages
...which a process of reasoning can be stated. Its usual form is as follows: A equals B ; but B equals C ; therefore A equals C. Here "A equals B" and "B equals...the syllogism — " The radii of a circle are equal ; R and R' are radii of a circle ; therefore R and R' are equal ". — the first premise is an intuition,... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1876 - 588 pages
...and "B equals C" are the premises, and "A equals C" is the conclusion. The premises in reasoning art? known either by intuition, by immediate judgment,...the syllogism — " The radii of a circle are equal ; R and R/ are radii of a circle; therefore II and R' are equal " — the first premise is an intuition,... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1880 - 584 pages
...reasoning are known either by intuition, by immediate judgment, or by a previous course of reasoning. lu the syllogism — "All men are mortal ; Socrates is...the syllogism— "The radii of a circle are equal; R and R' are radii of a circle; therefore R and R' are equal ". — the first premise is an intuition,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1881 - 756 pages
...the conclusion is, that they have (or that they have not) the second. Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1882 - 722 pages
...the conclusion is, that they have (or that they have not) tho second. Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - Science - 1894 - 412 pages
...called the conclusion, and it declares the relation of the major and minor terms to each other. Thus in the syllogism : All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal. " Mortal " is the major term because it is the predicate of the conclusion (ie, is asserted of the... | |
 | Christoph Sigwart - Logic - 1895 - 412 pages
...ordinarily presented, was attacked from another point of view by JS Mill.1 In the inference — All men are mortal ; Socrates is a man, Therefore Socrates is mortal, the conclusion seems to be drawn from the major premise. But in reality the major premise presupposes the... | |
 | George Herbert Betts - Educational psychology - 1906 - 296 pages
...and forms the three into what is called a syllogism, of which the following is a classical type: All men are mortal ; Socrates is a man, Therefore Socrates is mortal. The first judgment is in the form of a proposition which is called the major premise, because it is general THINKING... | |
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All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes. 
