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Logic, Inductive and Deductive

by William Minto

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Part II

Definition.

Chapter I.

(1) Imperfect Understanding of Words.
(2) Verification of the Meaning—Dialectic.
(3) Fixation of the Meaning—Division or Classification, Definition, Naming, 82

Chapter II.

The Five Predicables—Verbal and Real Predication, 105

Chapter III.

Aristotle's Categories, 112

Chapter IV.

The Controversy about Universals—Difficulties concerning the
Relation of General Names to Thought and to Reality, 120

Part III.

The Interpretation of Propositions.

Chapter I.

Theories of Predication—Theories of Judgment, 131

Chapter II.

The "Opposition" of Propositions—The Interpretation of "No," 139

Chapter III.

The Implication of Propositions—Immediate Formal Inference—Eduction, 146

Chapter IV.

The Counter-Implication of Propositions, 156

Part IV.

The Interdependence of Propositions.

Chapter I.

The Syllogism, 167

Chapter II.

The Figures and Moods of the Syllogism.
(1) The First Figure.
(2) The Minor Figures and their Reduction to the First.
(3) Sorites, 173

Chapter III.

The Demonstration of the Syllogistic Moods—The Canons of the Syllogism, 185

Chapter IV.

The Analysis of Arguments into Syllogistic Forms, 196

Chapter V.

Enthymemes, 205

Chapter VI.

The Utility of the Syllogism, 209

Chapter VII.

Conditional Arguments—Hypothetical Syllogism, Disjunctive Syllogism and Dilemma, 215

Chapter VIII.

Fallacies in Deductive Argument—Petitio Principii and Ignoratio Elenchi, 226

Chapter IX.

Formal or Aristotelian Induction—Inductive Argument—The Inductive Syllogism, 235

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