Introduction to logic, from dr. Whately's 'Elements of logic'. |
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abstract accident affirmed or denied Aldrich animals antecedent appear apply argument Arist Aristotle Aristotle's dictum assertion belongs birds Cæsar called categorical propositions Categorical Syllogisms Celarent Christ Christian common term conditional syllogism consequent considered contained contradictory conversion copula definition denote deserved death dicated differentia dilemma disjunctive disjunctive syllogism distributed employed enthymeme example exhibits marks expressed false falsity figure fore friends to religion genus gism gument happy hence hypothetical hypothetical syllogism illicit process imply individual infer intelligent author kind learner logic major term marks of design ment middle term mind minor premiss minor term miracles miracles of Jesus mode moods negative object observed particular predicate premiss and conclusion principle propo proposition proved quadruped reasoning reduced respect rules Scripture sion sition sorites speaking species Subalterns subcontraries suppose syllogistic thing tion tive treatise true patriots truth tyrant universal universal proposition validity vide virtue whole word
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Page 126 - Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Page 121 - By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death ; and was not found, because GOD had translated him : for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased GOD. But without faith it is impossible to please Him : for he that cometh to GOD must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
Page 57 - being the genus, and " Indicative " the difference, this definition expresses the whole essence ; and it relates entirely to the words of a proposition. With regard to the matter, its property is to be true or false.
Page 2 - But God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational.
Page 80 - ... figure ; (which is far the most natural and clear of all, as to this alone Aristotle's dictum may be at once applied...
Page 112 - Sorites; in which the predicate of the first proposition is made the subject of the next; and so on, to any length, till finally the Predicate of the last of the Premises is predicated...
Page 1 - ... arguments), whether for the sake of refuting an adversary, or of conveying instruction, or of satisfying our own minds on any point, whatever may be the subject we are engaged on, a certain process takes place in the mind which is one and the same in all cases, provided it be...
Page 122 - Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 142 - ... his religion ; when all these various evidences are brought together. and impartially weighed, it seems hardly within the power of a fair and ingenuous mind to resist the impression of their united force. If such a combination of evidence as this is not sufficient to satisfy an honest inquirer into truth, it is utterly impossible that any event which passed in former times, and which we did not see with our own eyes, can ever be proved to have happened, by any degree of testimony whatever. It...
Page 135 - ... soul and body cannot be comprehended or explained ; but it must be believed : therefore something must be believed which cannot be comprehended or explained. 75. Lias lies above red sandstone ; red sandstone lies above coal : therefore lias lies above coal.