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Common terms and phrasesabstract adjective affirmed or denied animals applies assertion attri attribute Barbara baroko belong bird blackbird bread called Camenes capable of forming categorematic Celarent class of words co-exist combination constitute contained conversion copula Darapti darii datisi denote disamis essentially Singular existence expressed fact Ferio fourth figure genus gism give grammar grammarian Hence hippogriffs horse idea implies important Individual names infimum John Julius Caesar kind language Latin letters Logic logician major major term many-worded matter means middle term minor premiss mnemonic mood Mutatis mutandis negative name Newmarket notice noun objects ordinary particular person premises pronoun propositions quadrupeds question rational reason relation sentence single sitions Socrates speak species speech stand statement subjects and predicates substance suggested summum sun shines swans are white syllogism thing third three propositions tion tive transposed true truth Universal negative universally affirmative verb whole write Popular passagesPage 122 - Ferioqne, prioris : Cesare, Camestres, Festino, Baroko, secundae : Tertia, Darapti, Disamis, Datisi, Felapton, Bokardo, Ferison, habet : Quarta insuper addit Bramantip, Camenes, Dimaris, Fesapo, Fresison : Quinque Subalterni totidem Generalibus orti, Nomen habent nullum, nee, si bene colligis, usum. Page 108 - That whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. Page 30 - That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. It is proposed in this chapter to inquire what it is that renders language thus subservient to the most important of our intellectual faculties. In the various steps of this inquiry, we shall... Page 152 - ... this equation also would be equally true were x, y, and z symbols of number, and were the juxtaposition of two literal symbols to represent their algebraic product, just as in the logical signification previously given, it represents the class of objects to which both the epithets conjoined belong. The above are the laws which govern the use of the sign + , here used to denote the positive operation of aggregating parts into a whole. But the very idea of an operation effecting some positive change... Page 102 - Simple apprehension is the notion (or conception) of any object of the mind, analogous to the perception of the senses. It is either incomplex, or complex. Incomplex apprehension is of one object or of several, without any relation being perceived between them, as of a man... Page 283 - Handbook of the English Language. For the use of Students of the Universities and the Higher Classes in Schools. By RG Latham, MA MD &c. Page 109 - I take a third line c, or an inch, and apply it to each of them ; if it agree with them both, then I infer that A and B are equal : but if it agree with one and not with the other, then I conclude A and B are unequal : if it agree with neither of them, there can be no comparison. " So if the question be, whether God must be worshipped... Page 108 - ... to use a medium, and to compare each of them with some third idea, that by seeing how far they agree or... Page 152 - All States except those which are monarchial.' Here it is implied that the things excepted form a part of the things from which they are excepted. As we have expressed the operation of aggregation by the sign +,so we may express the negative operation above described by — (minus). Thus if x be taken to represent men, and y Asiatics, ie Asiatic men, then the conception of 'All men except Asiatics Page 103 - Language affords the signs by which these operations of the mind are expressed and communicated. An act of apprehension expressed in language, is called a term; an act of judgment, a proposition ; an act of reasoning, an argument ; (which, when regularly expressed, is a syllogism... Bibliographic information
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