All, Some, and None
All, Some, and None One major difference between Aristotle’s understanding of predication and modern (i.e., post-Fregean) logic is that Aristotle treats individual predications and general predications as similar in logical […]
All, Some, and None One major difference between Aristotle’s understanding of predication and modern (i.e., post-Fregean) logic is that Aristotle treats individual predications and general predications as similar in logical […]
Premises: The Structures of Assertions Syllogisms are structures of sentences each of which can meaningfully be called true or false: assertions (apophanseis), in Aristotle’s terminology. According to Aristotle, every such […]
Aristotelian Deductions and Modern Valid Arguments Despite its wide generality, Aristotle’s definition of deduction is not a precise match for a modern definition of validity. Some of the differences may […]
The Subject of Logic: “Syllogisms” All Aristotle’s logic revolves around one notion: the deduction (sullogismos). A thorough explanation of what a deduction is, and what they are composed of, will […]
syllogism/see also: Buddhist logic Enthymeme Other types of syllogism: Disjunctive syllogism Hypothetical syllogism Polysyllogism Prosleptic syllogism Quasi-syllogism Statistical syllogism Syllogistic fallacy The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures Venn […]
See also: Syllogistic fallacy syllogistic fallacies @wikipedia
In the 19th Century, modifications to syllogism were incorporated to deal with disjunctive (“A or B”) and conditional (“if A then B”) statements. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Logic
We may, with Aristotle, distinguish singular terms such as Socrates and general terms such as Greeks. Aristotle further distinguished (a) terms that could be the subject of predication, and (b) […]
A syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός – syllogismos – “conclusion,” “inference”) is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two or more others (the premises) […]
Aristotelian Syllogisms after Raymond McCall, Basic Logic (Barnes & Noble, 1967); symbolic apparatus from Elementary Logic, by Benson Mates (Oxford, 1972) Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2002 Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D. […]