 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...the conclusion is necessarily involved in flue of the premises. This will appear from the following syllogism. All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore Socrates is mortal. This is a syllogism correct in mood and figure and in fact one with which all works ou Logic are illustrated.... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 626 pages
...every syllogism, the major premiss Apparently assumes the thing which is required to be proved. Thus in the syllogism — All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore Socrates is mortal, we see that the major premiss assumes the conclusion, since it is a universal proposition which includes... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - Logic - 1856 - 268 pages
...first-mentioned attribute ; and the conclusion is, that they have (or that they have not) the second. Thus, All men are mortal ; Socrates is a man ; Therefore, Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premise are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.... | |
 | William Thomson - Logic - 1857 - 416 pages
...supposed to be the most perfect, the major was by its position most extensive, and the minor least ; thus, in the syllogism " All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal " — mortal, the major term, is more extensive than Socrates, the minor ; for, in mortal, we include... | |
 | Joseph Haven - Psychology - 1857 - 612 pages
...The very construction of the syllogism, it is said, involves a pctitio vrincipii. "When I say, All men are mortal ; Socrates is a man ; therefore, Socrates is mortal ; the major premiss, it is said, affirms the very thing to be proved ; that Socrates is mortal is virtually... | |
 | William Thomson - Logic - 1859 - 366 pages
...supposed to be the most perfect, the major was by its position most extensive, and the minor least ; thus, in the syllogism " All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal " — mortal, the major term, is more extensive than Socrates, the minor ; for, in mortal,, we include... | |
 | William Thomson - Logic - 1863 - 404 pages
...supposed to be the most perfect, the major was by its position most extensive, and the minor least ; thus, in the syllogism " All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal " — mortal, the major term, is more extensive than Socrates, the minor ; for, in mortal, wr include... | |
 | William Thomson - Logic - 1863 - 354 pages
...supposed to be the most perfect, the major was by its position most extensive, and the minor least ; thus, in the syllogism " All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal " — mortal, the major term, is more extensive than Socrates, the minor ; for, in mortal, we include... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 806 pages
...performing the essential processes of reasoning. We have been saying in thousands of treatises on logic, All men are mortal : Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. The elephant reasons : All boys are bun-giving animals ; that biped is a boy : therefore I will hold out... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 798 pages
...performing the essential processes of reasoning. We have been saying in thousands of treatises on logic, All men are mortal : Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. The elephant reasons : All boys are bun-giving animals ; that biped is a boy : therefore I will hold out... | |
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All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes. 
