Categorical Syllogism

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Around 350 BCE, Aristotle developed syllogisms in their
original form in his work entitled

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Analytica Priora.

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represent the earliest branch of formal logic.

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Syllogisms

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is the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it
possible to infer true conclusions from given premises.

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A syllogism

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is an argument that has three categorical propositions.

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A categorical syllogism

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is a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.

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Syllogism

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It has three categorical terms: major, minor, and middle terms.

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categorical syllogism

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The predicate of the conclusion; subject or predicate of one of the two premises

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MAJOR TERM

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Subject of the conclusion; subject or predicate of one of the two premises

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MINOR TERM

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Often found in the two premises (can be subject or predicate), which serves to link them with each other

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MIDDLE TERM

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The major premise contains the major term while the minor premise contains the minor term.
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true

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is the arrangement of terms in the argument or syllogism.

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Figure

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It can be easily identified with the location of the middle term.

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figure

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There are four figures because there are two premises and two possible positions in each premise.

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true

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depends upon the type of categorical propositions that consist a categorical syllogism (A, E, I or O)

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mood

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It is a list of the types beginning with the major premise and ending with the conclusion.

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mood

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Every categorical proposition contains a subject and a predicate term that belong into different quantities: this can be referring to all members of a class, a portion, or none at all.

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distribution

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is an attribute that describes the relationship between a categorical proposition and its terms, whether or not the proposition makes a statement about every member of the class represented by a given term.

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Distribution

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A syllogism can be validated by looking on the mood and figure of the syllogism itself.

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validity

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Syllogistic rules are formulated so that errors in making syllogism would be noted in case that there are violations.

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validity

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Each of the rules may be concerned in terms of distribution, copula (on negation), and quantity.

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validity

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If there are four terms in a categorical syllogism, it commits the

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Fallacy of Four Terms, or Fallacy of Ambiguous Middle

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If the middle terms are left undistributed, it commits the

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Fallacy of Undistributed Middle

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If the term is undistributed in the premise yet distributed in the conclusion, the latter says more about the term than the premises did.

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fallacy of illicit processs

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Two negative premises deny class inclusion, thus cannot yield linkage towards the conclusion.

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This commits the Fallacy of Exclusive Premises.

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A syllogism containing a negative premise should always have a negative conclusion and not an affirmative one.

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true

Question 26

In the Boolean interpretation of categorical propositions, universal propositions (A & E) have no existential import.

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RULE 6: FROM TWO UNIVERSAL PREMISES, NO PARTICULAR CONCLUSION MAY BE DRAWN

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If the premises of an argument do not assert the existence of anything at all, the conclusion will be unwarranted when the existence of some thing may be inferred.

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(Existential Fallacy)