Kinds of Argument: Syllogism, Premises, Conclusion and Three Terms

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• Which three kinds of hujjah does the source name?
• What is central to the definition of qiyas?
• What follows from all humans being living creatures and all living creatures being bodies?
• What is the subject in “Every human is a body”?
• What is the predicate of that conclusion?
• Which is the minor term in “Every human is a body”?
• Which is the major term in this syllogism?
• Which is the middle term?
• How is the minor premise identified?
• How is the major premise identified?
• Why is the middle term absent from the conclusion?
• What follows from all humans being rational and all rational beings being bodies?
• What is the middle term in the rational/body example?
• What follows from every human being living and no living creature being stone?
• Which is the major term in that negative syllogism?
• What follows from some living creatures being horses and every horse neighing?
• What is the minor term in the horse example?
• What is the middle term in the horse example?
• What is the middle term in the source’s praying-Muslim argument?
• What is the quantity of the conclusion in the textbook’s beard-shaving example?
• What does the logical analysis of the textbook beard example establish?
• Which is the middle term in the praying/prostrating/obedient example?
• Why is the human/goat/animal inference invalid?
• What is necessarily entailed by some students being athletes and some being memorizers?
• What is the primary test for an inference?
• What if an argument has valid form but a false premise?
• Which of the three hujjah types receives detailed treatment here?
• What is the introductory characterization of induction?
• What is the introductory characterization of analogy?
• In “Some living creatures neigh,” what is the major term?
• Does one repeated word always create a valid syllogism?
• In “No human is a stone,” what is the minor term?
• What is a reliable way to identify the middle term?
• Does writing “therefore” establish a conclusion?
• Which proposition is most useful to isolate first when labeling terms?
• If every A is B and every B is C, which conclusion follows?
• What follows from some A are B and every B is C?
• What determines the names minor and major premise?
• The middle term is shared by premises and absent from the conclusion.
• Every argument containing “every” must be valid.
• Identify the minor term from the conclusion’s subject.
• The major term always denotes the physically largest object.
• Some living creatures being horses does not entail that all are horses.
• The word “some” in two premises must refer to identical individuals.
• A valid syllogistic form automatically proves each premise true.
• After naming three types of hujjah, the text explains qiyas in detail.
• In a negative conclusion the minor term is still the subject.
• Analyzing a textbook theological syllogism independently proves all its religious premises.