These?syllogisms with Aristotle's "Six Rules," — Count Timothy von Icarus
Illicit major. A distributed in conclusion, not in major premise.All B’s are A
All B’s are C
So All A’s are C
is invalid by breaking the additional rule — Wallace Murphree
Not a syllogism. Maybe Some As are Cs? But then you need existential qualifiers for A nd C, yes?All B’s are A
(Some B’s are B)
All B’s are C
So Some A’s are B — Wallace Murphree
I feel this program should make the ability to determine validity in categorical logic possible for much younger students than ever before. Moreover, I think it reveals the internal workings of such arguments more clearly than any of the other methods.
I would appreciate any comments. — Wallace Murphree
I have an example of the nature of my complaint. A college level course in statistics that confined itself to instruction in the operation of a certain software package, the instructor, actually a professor, refusing to answer any questions on statistics itself. Needless to say, nothing there learned.
It's useful to reflect on what Aristotelian logic is for and what it is about - a way of testing for nonsense. Presupposed is the student's ability to recognize basic truths and simple nonsense. It seems to me your "device" eliminates the need for such presuppositions, and for such basic knowledge and recognition. Which has been happening for at least fifty years in US education, resulting in a population that cannot tell sense from nonsense and buys the nonsense. — tim wood
Being older?? I was born in 1938, retired in 2000 — Wallace Murphree
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