An edition of Essentials Of Formal Logic
(1918)
Essentials of formal logic
by Mahony, Michael Joseph, 1860-
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Preliminary Notions
PHILOSOPHY — Definition — Divisions — Educational and Cultural Value — Ethical Value — Relation between Philosophy and the Christian Religion 1
LOGIC— Natural and Acquired — Definition — Material and Formal Objects— Correctness and Truth of Thought — Divisions 6
MINOR LOGIC or DIALECTICS— Definition— Divisions. 9
Part I
THE FIRST ACT OF THE MIND — SIMPLE APPREHENSION
Chapter I
SIMPLE APPREHENSION AND ALLIED NOTIONS — Definition of Simple Apprehension — Subjective, Objective and Representative Character — Other Names for — Material and Formal Objects — Comprehension and Extension — Mental Processes involved in Simple Apprehension 11
Chapter II
CLASSIFICATION OF SIMPLE APPREHENSIONS - IDEAS — A. According to their Origin — B. According to the Objects which they represent — Direct and reflex universal Ideas — Predicables and Predicaments — C. According to the Perfection with which theyrepresent their Objects 19
Chapter III
THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF IDEAS— Signs - Definition — Division — Words — Categorematic — Syncategorematic — Terms — Division — Supposition of terms 80
Part II
THE SECOND ACT OF THE MIND — JUDGMENT
Chapter I
THE NATURE OF JUDGMENT — Definition — Prerequisites — Matter and Form — Division of Judgment — Proposition — Subect, Predicate, Copula — Nature of the Copula — What it expresses — Division of Propositions — Quantity and Quality of Propositions 35
Chapter II
LAWS THAT REGULATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECT AND PREDICATE— Applied to A, E, I, O Propositions — Simple, Complex and Compound Propositions — Reduction of Compound Propositions to their Logical Forms 43
Chapter III
MODAL PROPOSITIONS— Definition— Division 47
Chapter IV
RELATIVE PROPERTIES OF PROPOSITIONS— Opposite Propositions — Definition— Species of Opposition—Square Opposition — Laws of Opposition 48
Chapter V
AEQUIPOLLENCE OR EQUIVALENCE — Definition — Examples — Rule 49
Chapter VI
CONVERSION OF PROPOSITIONS— Definition— Different Kinds— Rules 50
Part III
THE THIRD ACT OF THE MIND — REASONING
Chapter I
NATURE OF THE ACT OF REASONING — Prerequisites — Matter and Form of Definition — Basic Principles of 51
Chapter II
EXPRESSION OF THE ACT OF REASONING— Syllogism— Definition— - Technical Terms involved in 54
Chapter III
RULES OF THE SYLLOGISM— Enumeration— Proof of each 57
Chapter IV
MOODS AND FIGURES— Definition— Number of possible Premises — Invalid Premises — Valid Premises. Figures — Definition — Forms of — Special Rules of each — Moods that are valid in each — Mnemonic Lines 61
Chapter V
REDUCTION— Definition— Meaning of Letters in the Mnemonic Words — Direct and Indirect Reduction 64
Chapter VI
HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISM— Definition— Laws of— Rules of Different Kinds of — Fallacies incident to — Purely Hypothetical Syllogism 67
Chapter VII
THE DISJUNCTIVE SYLLOGISM — Definition — Two Moods of — Rules — Fallacies of 69
Chapter VIII
ABRIDGED AND CONJOINED SYLLOGISMS— Definition of abridged Syllogism — The Enthymeme — Forms of — Fallacies of — Examples — Conjoined Syllogism — Epicheireme — Sorites — Dilemma — Rules of 71
Chapter IX
INDUCTION— Analytic and Synthetic Judgments— Problem of Induction — Definition of Induction — Steps in the Process, Observation, Hypothesis, Verification, Generalization, Basic Principles of Induction — Causality — Uniformity of Nature — Two Kinds of Induction — Ultimate Justification of Induction 75
METHODS OF INDUCTION — Agreement— Difference — Residues— Concomitant Variations 81
Chapter X
ARGUMENT FROM ANALOGY— Definition and Nature — Analogy of Proportion — of Resemblance — Argument from Example 83
Chapter XI
FALLACIES— Different Forms of 85
Chapter XII
DEFINITION— Nature of—Nominal and Real— Genetic —Descriptive— Essential— Rules of Definition 87
Chapter XIII
DIVISION— Definition— Different Kinds of Parts— Real and Logical Unit — Rules of Division 89
Part IV
METHOD
Chapter I
DEFINITION— Synthetic and Analytic 92
Chapter II
RULES OF METHOD— Rules for Study 94
FINIS
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