| Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1801 - 342 pages
...vowels, A, Ef /, O, are only regarded. There are generally counted three figures.. In thcjirst of them the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor. This contains four moods, called, Barbara, Celarent, Darn, Ferio. And it is the excellency of this... | |
| William Duncan - Logic - 1802 - 258 pages
...argumentation proper to each. In the syllogisms mentioned in the foregoing chapters, we may observe, that the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor. This disposition, though the most natural and obvious, is not, however, necessary; it frequently happening,... | |
| Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1809 - 328 pages
...vowels, A, E, I, O, are only regarded. There are generally counted three figures. In the first of them the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor. This contains four moods, called Barbara, Celarent, Darii, t'erio. And it is the excellency of this... | |
| Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1811 - 298 pages
...vowels A, E, I, O, are only regarded. These arc generally counted three figures. In the first of them the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor. This contains four moods, (viz.) Barbara, Celarent, Uarii, Ferio. And it is the excellency of this... | |
| Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...vowels, A, E, I, O, are only regarded. There are generally counted three figures. In the first of them the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor. This contains four moods, called, Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferio. And it is the excellency of this... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1813 - 536 pages
...various figures. Now all the possible positions of the middle term are only four : for, first, it may be the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor, and then the syllogism is of the first figure ; or it may be the predicate of both premises, and then... | |
| Levi Hedge - Logic - 1816 - 220 pages
...different positions in relation to the extremes. Hence four figures have been invented. In the first, the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor. IB the second, it is the predicate, and in the third, the subject of both the premises. In the fourth,... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 746 pages
...then, of the firil figure are briefly lliele: The middle term is thefubieil of the major proportion, and the predicate of the minor. The major is always an universal proportion, and the minor always affirmative. Let 113 now fee what cffecl thefe rules will have in... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...disposition is, we see, fourfold, so the figures of syllogisms thence arising are four in number. When the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor, we have what is called ihejirstjifrurc : As, *' No work of God is bad : <v The natural passions and... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker, William Enfield - Philosophy - 1819 - 540 pages
...universal or particular, affirmative or negative.5* The figures of Syllogisms are three — in the First, the middle term is the subject of the major proposition, and the predicate of the minor. It contains four modes which are conclusive. In the Second, the middle term is the predicate of both... | |
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