This appendix is to acquaint the non-technical person with a quick overview of traditional logic. Because of the amount of information that must be covered, some familiarity will be assumed. If you lack this familiarity, please have a dictionary handy, preferably a philosophical dictionary. It is advised that the reader who wishes to understand traditional logic in detail secure a good basic logic texts book, for the treatment of these matters is inadequate. What essentially differentiates the two main branches of logic, traditional and modern, is the way they structure their propositions, and the language they choose.
Traditional logic is chiefly concerned with the analysis of the syllogism.
The syllogism is a sequence of propositions which have the property of inference as an inherent part of it's form. Propositions are, in turn, a sequence of terms. The analysis of a term's connotation is it's definition and the analysis of a terms denotation is called division. The subsets are called species and the set is called the genus. Humanity is said to be essentially rational and an animal with certain physical attributes.