A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific InvestigationLongmans, Green, 1900 - 622 pages |
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... mortal- Man is mortal- Julius Caesar is mortal- Singular . The proposition is Singular when the subject is an individual name . The individual name needs not be a proper name . " The Founder of Christianity was crucified , " is as much ...
... mortal- Man is mortal- Julius Caesar is mortal- Singular . The proposition is Singular when the subject is an individual name . The individual name needs not be a proper name . " The Founder of Christianity was crucified , " is as much ...
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... mortal , both the pre- of the two he intends , the context , or dicate and the subject are undis- the custom of speech , supplies the tributed . In the following , No men deficiency . Thus , when it is affirmed have wings , both the ...
... mortal , both the pre- of the two he intends , the context , or dicate and the subject are undis- the custom of speech , supplies the tributed . In the following , No men deficiency . Thus , when it is affirmed have wings , both the ...
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... mortal , in like manner , con- notes a certain attribute or attri- butes ; and when we say , All men are mortal , the meaning of the proposi- tion is , that all beings which possess the one set of attributes possess also the other . If ...
... mortal , in like manner , con- notes a certain attribute or attri- butes ; and when we say , All men are mortal , the meaning of the proposi- tion is , that all beings which possess the one set of attributes possess also the other . If ...
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... mortal , asserts , according to this view of it , that the class man is in- Icluded in the class mortal . " Plato is a philosopher , " asserts that the individual Plato is one of those who compose the class philosophers . If the ...
... mortal , asserts , according to this view of it , that the class man is in- Icluded in the class mortal . " Plato is a philosopher , " asserts that the individual Plato is one of those who compose the class philosophers . If the ...
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... mortal . " In this case , as in the last , what the proposition asserts ( or expresses a be- lief of ) is , of course , that the objects denoted by the subject ( man ) possess the attributes connoted by the predi- cate ( mortal ) . But ...
... mortal . " In this case , as in the last , what the proposition asserts ( or expresses a be- lief of ) is , of course , that the objects denoted by the subject ( man ) possess the attributes connoted by the predi- cate ( mortal ) . But ...
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