premises
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The next thing is to translate the proposed Premisses into abstract form, as follows:— “No x are m′; All m are y”. pg061Next, by the process described at p.
From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis
In Part II. will be found some of the matters mentioned in this Appendix, viz., the “Existential Import” of Propositions, the use of a negative Copula, and the theory that “two negative Premisses prove nothing.”
From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis
I shall now take three different forms of Pairs of Premisses, and work out their Conclusions, once for all, by Diagrams; and thus obtain some useful Formulæ.
From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis
I have tabulated, for curiosity, the various orders in which the Premisses of the Aristotelian Sorites 1.
From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis
It is permitted to use, as Premisses, not only all that is here asserted, but also all that we may reasonably understand to be implied.
From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis
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