PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Categorical Proposition

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 201
• Professor: Carrie Lynne Yvonne Klatt

Document Summary

We have spent the last couple of weeks studying categorical propositions. Unfortunately, in the real world, the statements that people make seldom have that form. Here, we will learn how to take various statements and convert them into one of the four categorical proposition forms: they need nouns: categorical propositions such as all s are p must have. Nouns for both the subject class and the predicate class. But often the predicate has something else instead (like an adjective). In those cases, we need to insert the noun. All kittens are adorable technically does not have the correct form. It should say something like all kittens are adorable things or perhaps all kittens are adorable animals. similarly, In those cases, we need to convert the proposition so that it has the correct verb form. Some dogs bite does not have are or are not as its verb form.