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

by George Hastings McNair

∴ No trees are mortal.

Illicit Minor.

To illustrate this fallacy one may use the middle term as the subject of two A premises. This would give an A conclusion in which the subject is distributed. But this same term is not distributed in its premise because here it is used as the predicate of an A. Illustration:

All earnest students study,

All earnest students desire to succeed,

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∴ All who desire to succeed study.

11. REVIEW QUESTIONS.

(1) Distinguish between inference and reasoning.

(2) Define inference. Mediate inference.