Names, Definition, Subject Matter, and Aim of Logic

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• Why is the discipline called manṭiq?
• What does the source mean by inward speech?
• An eloquent argument has a conclusion that does not follow. What is shown?
• Which best introduces genus in logic?
• Why is logic called a balance?
• What is wrong with inferring that a horse is human because humans and horses are living beings?
• If an inference is valid but a premise false, what follows?
• What is meant by logic as an instrumental science?
• Who is called the First Teacher in the textbook?
• Which word describes al-Farabi’s role?
• What role does the text associate with Ibn Sina?
• Why is “observing the rules” essential in logic’s definition?
• Which statement best represents logic’s definition?
• Why might a student of logic still make a mistake?
• What does a science’s subject matter identify?
• What is the subject of medicine in the source examples?
• What does the source name as grammar’s subject?
• What is the subject matter of logic according to the text?
• Why does the subject definition include “insofar as”?
• Clarifying an unknown meaning through a definition attains which unknown?
• Deriving a new proposition from two known premises concerns what?
• Which correctly distinguishes subject matter and aim?
• What aim does the source state for logic?
• Why does a logician study signification even though words are not the principal subject?
• Eloquent speaking and valid reasoning are exactly the same.
• The source calls Aristotle the First Teacher and al-Farabi the Second Teacher.
• Logic investigates every known concept and proposition in every possible respect.
• Signification is not logic’s ultimate aim, but is needed as a preliminary to communicating and receiving meaning.