| Herbert Spencer - Psychology - 1906 - 788 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 - Free thought - 1907 - 506 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 bungiving animals ; that biped is a boy ; therefore I will hold out... | |
| Leslie Stephen - Free thought - 1908 - 494 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 bungiving animals; that biped is a boy; therefore I will hold out my... | |
| Adam Leroy Jones - Logic - 1909 - 334 pages
...contains three propositions and only three. They are a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion. In the syllogism, " All men are mortal ; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal," the first proposition is the major premise, the second is the minor premise, and the third is, of course, the... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 780 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.... | |
| Charles Albert Dubray - Philosophy - 1912 - 658 pages
...sterile, and teaches nothing new, since the major already contains the conclusion. In the following syllogism, "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal," in order to be able to affirm the major, I must already be certain of the conclusion, for, the major... | |
| Désiré Mercier - Philosophy - 1916 - 626 pages
...been formulated by John Stuart Mill. All deductive reasoning, he says, may be put in the classical syllogism : All men are mortal ; Socrates is a man ; therefore Socrates is mortal. But this is no true argumentation, for it teaches us nothing new ; moreover it always contains a petitio... | |
| Occultism - 1914 - 454 pages
...from." If you know a general fact, you draw or deduct from it particular truths. For instance: "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." The method is only syllogistic. It had a peculiar development. It was employed freely by scholasticism... | |
| Norman Robert Campbell - History - 1920 - 590 pages
...many alternative logical deductions. 1 Let me explain what I mean by an example, that of the familiar syllogism, All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal. This argument is closely similar in form to one which involves relations characteristic of scientific... | |
| Morris Albert Copeland - Economics - 1924 - 584 pages
...states the results rather than the process of inference, as is readily shown. If we consider the famous syllogism, All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore Socrates is mortal, it is evident that if Socrates is a man, we could not know that all men are mortal without already... | |
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