Chapter Two: Propositions, Categorical and Conditional Forms, and Their Parts

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• In the definition of a proposition, what does “capable of truth or falsity” mean?
• Why is “Is Zayd at home?” not a proposition as asked?
• Which is a proposition even if it is false?
• Why does the alternative source definition mention the speaker?
• What is the source’s primary division of propositions?
• What is the correct analysis of “الإنسان حيوان”?
• Why is “الإنسان ليس بفرس” negative?
• What fundamentally distinguishes an affirmative from a negative categorical?
• How should “A human is not an animal” be classified?
• Which set correctly gives the three functional elements of a categorical?
• What is the subject in “This book is useful”?
• What role does “cold” play in “The water is not cold”?
• Why is “زيد قائم” categorical without an explicit separate copula?
• What logical function is illustrated by “هو” in “زيد هو قائم”?
• What extra aspect is expressed by “كان زيد قائماً”?
• What does the source example “زيد أبوه قائم” help show?
• What is meant by saying a categorical “does not resolve into two propositions”?
• What type is “إن كانت الشمس طالعة فالنهار موجود”?
• In “If the sun has risen, it is daylight,” which part is the antecedent?
• What is the consequent in the same sun–daylight conditional?
• Between what does the central relation of a conditional hold?
• What is the point of analyzing a conditional into two propositional components?
• What is denied by “It is by no means the case that if the sun has risen, night exists”?
• Does uttering “If the sun rises, daylight exists” itself assert that the sun has actually risen?
• What distinguishes “If the door opens, light will enter” from “The door is open”?
• Which analysis correctly identifies subject, predicate and copula in “The moon is bright”?
• If an affirmative proposition makes a false assertion, how should it be described?
• Every categorical proposition must be true or it stops being a proposition.
• The predication in “زيد قائم” can be understood although the copula is not an independent written word.
• Mentioning the antecedent of a conditional does not by itself prove that the antecedent actually occurs.