Number and tense have little significance in dealing with arguments.
(6) The common mistakes of students made in testing arguments concern exclusive, partitive and inverted propositions, and an inability to recognize expressions equivalent in meaning.
9. REVIEW QUESTIONS.
(1) Name and explain the two standpoints from which all arguments must be viewed.
(2) Give an outline of procedure which may be serviceable in the testing of categorical arguments.
(3) Give illustrations showing that the logical order of categorical arguments is not the usual mode of procedure in common parlance.
(4) Offer suggestions which may aid in designating a premise; a conclusion.
(5) How would you proceed in forming any one of the three propositions of a syllogism when the other two are given?
(6) Designate the premises and the conclusion in the following, supplying any proposition which may be omitted, also arrange logically and test the validity.
(1) “The people of this country are suffering from an overdose of prosperity; consequently a period of hard times will be a valuable lesson.” (The conclusion should be recast so as to read, “A period of hard times will cure the people of this country.” The minor premise is, “Those who suffer from an overdose of prosperity may be cured by a period of hard times.”)