 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 630 pages
...false. Out of this definition we may carve the premisses of the following syllogism : A dragon is e thing which breathes flame : But a dragon is a serpent...the first mode of the third figure, in which both premisses are true and yet the conclusion false ; which every logician knows to be an absurdity. The... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1846 - 624 pages
...may carve the premisses of the following syllogism : A dragon is a thing which breathes ffame : • . But a dragon is a serpent : From which the conclusion is, Therefore some serpent or serpents breathe ffame : — an unexceptionable syllogism, in the first mode of the third figure, in which both premisses... | |
 | James Robert Ballantyne - Nyaya - 1849 - 154 pages
...instance, be false. Out of this definition we may carve the premises of the following syllogism : — "A dragon is a thing which breathes flame. But a dragon is a serpent : Prom which the conclusion is Therefore some serpent or serpents breathe flame :" — "An unexceptionable... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 530 pages
...definition we may carve the premisses of the following syllogism: A dragon is a thing which breathes flame : A dragon is a serpent: From which the conclusion is,...the first mode of the third figure, in which both premisses are true and yet the conclusion false; which every logician knows to be an absurdity. The... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...definition be, ' A dragon is a serpent breathing flame,' out of this we may carve the following syllogism: ' A dragon is a thing which breathes flame; but a dragon is a serpent: therefore, some serpents breathe flame,'—" in which both premisses are true, and yet the conclusion... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1884 - 664 pages
...definition we may carve the premises of the following syllogism : A dragon is a thing which breathes flame : A dragon is a serpent : From which the conclusion...Therefore some serpent or serpents breathe flame : — an unexceptional syllogism in the first mode of the third figure, in which both premises are true and... | |
 | John Venn - Induction (Logic) - 1889 - 694 pages
...definition we may carve the premises of the following syllogism : A dragon is a thing which breathes flame : A dragon is a serpent: From which the conclusion is,...Therefore some serpent or serpents breathe flame." THE FOUNDATIONS OF LOGIC. to Logic needs no pointing out. It is implied in any kind of intercommunication... | |
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The tacit assumption, indeed (if there were any such understood assertion), of the existence of an object with properties corresponding to the definition, would, in the present 'instance, be false. Out of this definition we may carve the... 