 | Frank Hyneman Knight - 1997 - 394 pages
...rather than the process of inference, as is readily shown. If we consider the famous syllogism, All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore Socrates is mortal, it is evident that if Socrates is a man, we could not know that all men are mortal without already knowing... | |
 | Frank H. Knight - 1999 - 448 pages
...rather than the process of inference, as is readily shown. If we consider the famous syllogism, All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore Socrates is mortal, it is evident that if Socrates is a man, we could not know that all men are mortal without already knowing... | |
 | Sir Anthony Kenny - 1997 - 490 pages
...syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio printipii. When we say All men are mortal Socrates is a man, therefore...in the more general assumption, All men are mortal. We seem to be presented with two alternatives. If the syllogism is deductively valid, then the conclusion... | |
 | William S. Cooper - 2001 - 242 pages
...under Definition 5.1 is This is a formalization of the reasoning contained in the ancient syllogism All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. It is well known that symbolic calculi of the kind just described can formalize all of the Aristotelian syllogistic... | |
 | Ross B. Emmett - 2004 - 648 pages
...rather than the process of inference, as is readily shown. If we consider the famous syllogism, All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore Socrates is mortal, it is evident that if Socrates is a man, we could not know that all men are mortal without already knowing... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 548 pages
...of a scientific proof gives certain knowledge concerning reality. For example, in the syllogism "All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal," it is not merely that the conclusion is deduced correctly according to the 1 Cf. Top.. A 14, 105 b 19 s.... | |
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When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal... 
