11. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.

(1) Prove that the judgment is the elemental form of evolved thought.

(2) What is meant by evolved thought?

(3) Show that “Whatever is, is” is a statement of complete absolute identity only.

(4) State incomplete absolute identity.

(5) By means of one proposition state relative identity.

(6) Show that incomplete absolute identity is a term more or less illogical.

(7) Show that these statements are exact expressions of relative identity:

All men are some wise.

Some men are some wise.

(8) Why is the law of contradiction so named?

(9) Show that space may be bisected by drawing a circle upon the black board.

(10) Show that there is a difference in meaning between “You are not honest” and “You are not-honest.”

(11) Is there any difference in meaning between disagreeable and not agreeable?

(12) Which is the stronger term not-just or unjust? Why?

(13) Give a list of words in which the contradictory forms are expressed by the ordinary prefixes.

(14) Illustrate by circles the law of excluded middle.

(15) Illustrate by a line-diagram the difference between contradictory and opposite terms.

(16) Show that the province of the law of sufficient reason is physical science.


CHAPTER 4.
LOGICAL TERMS.