Essentials of formal logic
Publisher: Encyclopedia Press
Published: 1918
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preliminary Notions; title: PHILOSOPHY — Definition — Divisions — Educational and Cultural Value — Ethical Value — Relation between Philosophy and the Christian Religion 1; title: LOGIC— Natural and Acquired — Definition — Material and Formal Objects— Correctness and Truth of Thought — Divisions 6; title: MINOR LOGIC or DIALECTICS— Definition— Divisions. 9; title: Part I; title: THE FIRST ACT OF THE MIND — SIMPLE APPREHENSION; title: Chapter I; title: SIMPLE APPREHENSION AND ALLIED NOTIONS — Definition of Simple Apprehension — Subjective, Objective and Representative Character — Other Names for — Material and Formal Objects — Comprehension and Extension — Mental Processes involved in Simple Apprehension 11; title: Chapter II; title: CLASSIFICATION OF SIMPLE APPREHENSIONS - IDEAS — A. According to their Origin — B. According to the Objects which they represent — Direct and reflex universal Ideas — Predicables and Predicaments — C. According to the Perfection with which theyrepresent their Objects 19; title: Chapter III; title: THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF IDEAS— Signs - Definition — Division — Words — Categorematic — Syncategorematic — Terms — Division — Supposition of terms 80; title: Part II; title: THE SECOND ACT OF THE MIND — JUDGMENT; title: Chapter I; title: THE NATURE OF JUDGMENT — Definition — Prerequisites — Matter and Form — Division of Judgment — Proposition — Subect, Predicate, Copula — Nature of the Copula — What it expresses — Division of Propositions — Quantity and Quality of Propositions 35; title: Chapter II; title: LAWS THAT REGULATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATE— Applied to A, E, I, O Propositions — Simple, Complex and Compound Propositions — Reduction of Compound Propositions to their Logical Forms 43; title: Chapter III; title: MODAL PROPOSITIONS— Definition— Division  47; title: Chapter IV; title: RELATIVE PROPERTIES OF PROPOSITIONS— Opposite Propositions — Definition— Species of Opposition—Square Opposition — Laws of Opposition 48; title: Chapter V; title: AEQUIPOLLENCE OR EQUIVALENCE — Definition — Examples — Rule 49; title: Chapter VI; title: CONVERSION OF PROPOSITIONS— Definition— Different Kinds— Rules 50; title: Part III; title: THE THIRD ACT OF THE MIND — REASONING; title: Chapter I; title: NATURE OF THE ACT OF REASONING — Prerequisites — Matter and Form of Definition — Basic Principles of 51; title: Chapter II; title: EXPRESSION OF THE ACT OF REASONING— Syllogism— Definition— - Technical Terms involved in 54; title: Chapter III; title: RULES OF THE SYLLOGISM— Enumeration— Proof of each 57; title: Chapter IV; title: MOODS AND FIGURES— Definition— Number of possible Premises — Invalid Premises — Valid Premises. Figures — Definition — Forms of — Special Rules of each — Moods that are valid in each — Mnemonic Lines 61; title: Chapter V; title: REDUCTION— Definition— Meaning of Letters in the Mnemonic Words — Direct and Indirect Reduction 64; title: Chapter VI; title: HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISM— Definition— Laws of— Rules of Different Kinds of — Fallacies incident to — Purely Hypothetical Syllogism 67; title: Chapter VII; title: THE DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM — Definition — Two Moods of — Rules — Fallacies of 69; title: Chapter VIII; title: ABRIDGED AND CONJOINED SYLLOGISMS— Definition of abridged Syllogism — The Enthymeme — Forms of — Fallacies of — Examples — Conjoined Syllogism — Epicheireme — Sorites — Dilemma — Rules of 71; title: Chapter IX; title: INDUCTION— Analytic and Synthetic Judgments— Problem of Induction — Definition of Induction — Steps in the Process, Observation, Hypothesis, Verification, Generalization, Basic Principles of Induction — Causality — Uniformity of Nature — Two Kinds of Induction — Ultimate Justification of Induction 75; title: METHODS OF INDUCTION — Agreement— Difference — Residues— Concomitant Variations 81; title: Chapter X; title: ARGUMENT FROM ANALOGY— Definition and Nature — Analogy of Proportion — of Resemblance — Argument from Example 83; title: Chapter XI; title: FALLACIES— Different Forms of 85; title: Chapter XII; title: DEFINITION— Nature of—Nominal and Real— Genetic —Descriptive— Essential— Rules of Definition  87; title: Chapter XIII; title: DIVISION— Definition— Different Kinds of Parts— Real and Logical Unit — Rules of Division 89; title: Part IV; title: METHOD; title: Chapter I; title: DEFINITION— Synthetic and Analytic 92; title: Chapter II; title: RULES OF METHOD— Rules for Study 94; title: FINIS