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

by George Hastings McNair

14. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.

(1) Why should the scholar be tempted to speak and write illogically?

(2) Name the parts of speech that may be classed as predicables.

(3) Explain the ten categories as given by Aristotle.

(4) Show that genus and species are relative terms.

(5) Why should the definition be needed most in the abstract sciences, such as theology, ethics, political economy, juris-prudence and psychology?

(6) Define sin, life, wrong, personality, habit, character.

(7) From the viewpoint of natural history find the species in the series of terms of which polygon is a member.

(8) What is the plural of differentia?

(9) Why should logic insist upon the proximate genus?