A Class Room Logic / Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching

by George Hastings McNair

7. OUTLINE.

CATEGORICAL ARGUMENTS TESTED ACCORDING TO FORM.

(1) Arguments of form and matter.

(2) Order of procedure in the formal testing of arguments.

The outline.

Determining premises and conclusion.

Completing abbreviated arguments.

(3) Illustrative exercises in testing arguments which are complete and whose premises are logical.

(4) Illustrative exercises in testing completed arguments, one or both of whose premises are illogical.

Exclusive premises, individual premises, partitive premises, inverted premises.

(5) Incomplete and irregular arguments.

(6) Common mistakes of the student.