 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...; THEREFORE Socrates is mortal' — it is unanswerahly urged hy the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal,...more general assumption, All men are mortal ; that we cannot he assured of the mortality of all men, unless wo were previously certain of the mortality of... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...; THEREFORE Socrates is mortal" — it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal,...more general assumption, All men are mortal ; that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we were previously certain of the mortality of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 530 pages
...therefore -•'Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic f. I theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal,...in the more general assumption, All men are mortal: X_that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless ' we are already certain of the mortality... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - Logic - 1856 - 266 pages
...LOGICAL VALUE OK THE SYLLOGISM. 227 it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, " Socrates is mortal,"...general assumption, " All men are mortal :" that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we were previously certain of the mortality of... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 1857 - 396 pages
...man ; Therefore, Socrates is mortal ; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory that the proposition, ' Socrates is mortal,'...general assumption, ' All men are mortal ;' that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we are previously certain of the mortality of... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 268 pages
...LOGICAL VALUE OF THK SYLLOGISM. 227 it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, " Socrates is mortal," is presupposed in the more general assumption, " AH men are mortal :" that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we were previously... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
...Socrates is mortal, is presupposed in the more general assumption, All men are mortal : that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we were previously certa.ll of tho mortality of every individual man : that if it be still doubtful whether Socrates,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1859 - 632 pages
...Socrates is mortal, is presupposed in the more general assumption, All men are mortal : that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we were previously certain of t^ mortality of every individual man : that if it be still doubtful whether Socrates, or any other... | |
 | John Leechman - Logic - 1864 - 244 pages
...man ; therefore, Socrates is mortal ; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal,...more general assumption, All men are mortal : that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we were previously certain of the mortality of... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 pages
...man; Therefore, Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the Syllogistic theory, that the proposition, ' Socrates is mortal,'...general assumption, ' All men are mortal'; that we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we were previously certain of the mortality of... | |
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It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries... 
