Socratic logic
By: by Peter Kreeft ; edited by Trent Dougherty.
Contributors: Dougherty, Trent.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: South Bend, Ind
Language: eng
Subjects: Logic.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What good is logic?; title: Seventeen ways this book is different; title: The two logics; title: All of logic in two pages : an overview; title: The three acts of the mind; title: I. The first act of the mind : understanding; title: Understanding : the thing that distinguishes man from both beast and computer; title: Concepts, terms and words; title: The problem of universals; title: The comprehension and extension of terms; title: II. Terms; title: Classifying terms; title: Categories; title: Predicables; title: Division; title: III. Material fallacies; title: Fallacies of language; title: Fallacies of diversion; title: Fallacies of oversimplification; title: Fallacies of argumentation; title: Inductive fallacies; title: Procedural fallacies; title: Metaphysical fallacies; title: Short story : love is a fallacy; title: IV. Definition; title: The nature of definition; title: The rules of definition; title: The kinds of definition; title: The limits of definition; title: V. Second act of the mind : judgment; title: Judgments, propositions, and sentences; title: What is truth?; title: The four kinds of categorical propositions; title: Logical form; title: Euler's circles; title: Tricky propositions; title: The distribution of terms; title: VI. Changing propositions; title: Immediate inference; title: Conversion; title: Obversion; title: Contraposition; title: VII. Contradiction; title: What is contradiction?; title: The square of opposition; title: Existential import; title: Tricky propositions on the square; title: Some practical uses of the square of opposition; title: VIII. The third act of the mind : reasoning; title: What does reason mean?; title: The ultimate foundations of the syllogism; title: How to detect arguments; title: Arguments vs. explanations; title: Truth and validity; title: IX. Different kinds of arguments; title: Three meanings of because; title: The four causes; title: A classification of arguments; title: Simple argument maps; title: Deductive and inductive arguments; title: Combining deduction and induction : socratic method; title: X. Syllogisms; title: The structure and strategy of the syllogism; title: The skeptics objection to the syllogism; title: The empiricist's objection to the syllogism; title: Demonstrative syllogisms; title: How to construct convincing syllogisms; title: XI. Checking syllogisms for validity; title: By Euler's circles; title: By Aristotle's six rules; title: Barbara Celarent : mood and figure; title: Venn diagrams; title: XII. More difficult syllogisms; title: Enthymemes : abbreviated syllogisms; title: Sorites : chain syllogisms; title: Epicheiremas : multiple syllogisms; title: Complex argument maps; title: XIII. Compound syllogisms; title: Hypothetical syllogisms; title: Reductio ad absurdum arguments; title: The practical syllogism : arguing about means and ends; title: Disjunctive syllogisms; title: Conjunctive syllogisms; title: Dilemmas; title: XIV. Induction; title: What is induction?; title: Generalization; title: Causal induction : Mill's methods; title: Scientific hypotheses; title: Statistical probability; title: Arguments from analogy; title: A fortiori and a minore arguments; title: XV. Some practical applications of logic; title: How to write a logical essay; title: How to write a socratic dialogue; title: How to have a socratic debate; title: How to use socratic method on difficult people; title: How to read a book socratically; title: XVI. Some philosophical applications of logic; title: Logic and theology; title: Logic and metaphysics; title: Logic and cosmology; title: Logic and philosophical anthropology; title: Logic and epistemology; title: Logic and ethics.