PHIL 102 Chapter 7: Philosophy 102 Week 14 Notes
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7-6 categorical logic: some philosophical background: categorical logic was rst discovered by aristotle more than three centuries bce existential interpretation- understanding of a and e statements as presupposing the existence of items in the subject category. 7-7 the categorical syllogism categorical syllogism- argument with two premises and a conclusion, in which the premises and the conclusion are statements in categorical form and there are 3 different categories of things involved in the argument. 3: e: no s are p. both the subject term, s, and the predicate term, p, are distributed. I: some s are p. neither the subject term, s, nor the predicate term, p, is distributed: o: some s are not p. the subject term, s, is not distributed. Therefore, (3) all business owners are people with good judgment. the middle term is practical people (1) all prisoners are vulnerable people. (2) some vulnerable people are easily coerced.
