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CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS
1. ALL WHALES ARE MAMMALS.
2. ALL MAMMALS ARE ANIMALS THAT
BREATHE BY MEANS OF LUNGS.
3. ALL WHALES ARE ANIMALS THAT
BREATHE BY MEANS OF LUNGS.
COMPONENTS OF CATEGORICAL
SYLLOGISMS
CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS
MAJOR TERM: OCCURS IN PREDICATE OF
CONCLUSION (P)
MAJOR PREMISE: PREMISE IN WHICH
MAJOR TERM APPEARS
MINOR TERM: OCCURS IN THE SUBJECT OF
THE CONCLUSION. (S)
MINOR PREMISE: PREMISE IN WHICH MINOR
TERM APPEARS.
MIDDLE TERM: TERM WHICH APPEARS IN
EACH PREMISE BUT NOT IN CONCLUSION.
CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS
THE FUNCTION OF THE MIDDLE TERM:
THIS TERM WILL BE NAMED M.
IT MEDIATES OR CONNECTS S AND P.
MOOD OF CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS:
REFERS TO ORDER OF TYPES OF
PROPOSITIONS IN THE SYLLOGISM.
WHALE ARGUMENT AGAIN. AAA
CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS
FIGURE OF A CATEGORICAL
SYLLOGISM:
REFERS TO THE POSITION OF THE
MIDDLE TERM IN THE PREMISES.
ONLY 4 MOODS, SEE P. 236. YOU NEED
TO COMMIT THIS TO MEMORY.
CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS
STANDARD FORM: WHEN SYLLOGISMS
APPEAR IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE
CONTEXTS WE NEED TO PUT THEM
INTO STANDARD FORM.
STRATEGY: (EACH SYLLOGISM HAS
THREE LINES WHICH CORRESPOND TO
EACH PROPOSITION.)
CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS
CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS
SEE PRACTICE QUIZ EXAMPLE ON WEB.
VALIDITY OF CATEGORICAL
SYLLOGISMS
VALIDITY: NECESSITY: ALL OR NONE
IN TOTAL 256 FORMS OF CATEGORICAL
SYLLOGISMS.
ENTHYMEMES
CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISMS WITH
IMPLIED PREMISE.
P.QUIZ 9.3. P. 242.