...contrast case to p-prims and judgments is logic using word/concepts. Take the classic example of a logical syllogism: "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal." You could call this a judgment, but it really has a very different character. It is "hard," "crisp,"...

...according to the rules of logic and deductive reasoning (let us take, for example, the syllogism, eg 'All men are mortal; Socrates is a man: therefore Socrates is mortal'). The idea that mental events apply a different type of logic to the physiological processes on which they...

...argument was used as an example by Aristotle (384-322 BCE) and practically every logic teacher since: "All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal." The conclusion, "Socrates is mortal," is established beyond the shadow of a doubt because of the alleged...

...great mirror, containing various representations." Consider, in this regard, Posner's exposition of the syllogism "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." The logic of this syllogism depends upon the rationalist model of a category. On this model, a category...

...usefulness of syllogistic reasoning. Posner introduces this argument with a discussion of the famous syllogism "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal": That premise says, in effect, here is a box, labelled "men," with a bunch of things in it, every one...

...schemata valid under Definition 5.1 is This is a formalization of the reasoning contained in the ancient syllogism All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. It is well known that symbolic calculi of the kind just described can formalize all of the Aristotelian...

...not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence (John Stuart Mill), b the science of reasoning: In the syllogism "All men are mortal,...is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. " . . . the conclusion is deduced correct/y according to the forma/ laws of logic (Frederick Copleston). 2a a particular...

...Harmony of Religion and Philosophy (London, 1976), p.20 8 Hourani, Averroes, p. 20. 9 For example, the syllogism "All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore, Socrates is mortal." 10 Hourani, Averroes, p. 20. 11 Averroes, Tahafut al-Tahafut, trans. S. Van Den Bergh (London, 1978),...

...science and art of reasoning, which is the special kind or aspect of thinking exemplified by the classic syllogism "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal" or by Babbitt's "simplistic" argument quoted by Gramsci from Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt: A good labor...

...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...