 | Stewart Shapiro, William J. Wainwright - Mathematics - 2005 - 850 pages
...counterargument. Thus, the original argument is not valid. Consider a paradigm case of a valid argument: All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. The validity of this argument does not turn on anything special about mortality and Socrates. Any argument... | |
 | Robert Trapp, Janice E. Schuetz - Debates and debating - 2006 - 360 pages
...corresponded to one of the predetermined valid forms, it was said to be valid. So, the familiar example of the syllogism— "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal."— is valid because it conforms to the abstract ideal— "If all A is B, and C is an A, then C must be... | |
 | Alexander R. Pruss - Philosophy - 2006 - 317 pages
...one should understand the implications of every instance of it — if it were, then the categorical syllogism All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal -would be question begging. All one needs to understand is -what the W-PSR asserts of each proposition,... | |
 | Eldo C. Koenig - Technology & Engineering - 2006 - 332 pages
...-, -, \1 "1 "1 "1 ") 1 "1 "1 "1 "1 ") Consider the following argument defining an automaton a: "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." The following (15 + 1)-tuple contains the meaning of this valid argument (the form of the logical symbolism... | |
 | R. Raj Singh - Philosophy - 2007 - 150 pages
...non-acceptance of his impending death by the hero of this narrative, as he clearly recognizes the truth of the syllogism "all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore, Socrates is mortal," but cannot accept that he himself, the little Vanya as he was called in his childhood, is mortal and... | |
 | Judith Roof - DNA. - 2007 - 256 pages
...also work the opposite way, breaking ideas down into their component parts. Thus even the familiar syllogism — All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal — also works in reverse if the question is "What is mortality?" Dialecticism is a way to both arrive... | |
 | James V. Schall - Religion - 2007 - 284 pages
...reason why something is true. It gives the basis on which the conclusion is true. Take the commonly used syllogism "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." What is being said here? First of all, the major premise, "All men are mortal", is something whose... | |
 | Patrick J. McGowan, Scarlett Cornelissen, Philip Nel - Africa - 2007 - 466 pages
...them. assumption: statements taken as true for the sake of making an argument. In the argument, 'All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal', the first statement is an assumption. authoritarian state: a state characterised by a system of government in... | |
 | 100 pages
...words. The heart of Aristotle's logic is the syllogism, the classic example of which is as follows: All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal. The syllogistic form of logical argumentation dominated logic for 2,000 years. Aristotle's editors gave... | |
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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. 
