 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 534 pages
...far as we know, all for which any of the opponents of the syllogistic art contend. ' For,' he says, 'it must be granted that in every syllogism, considered...prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii? Now what other good purpose in logic this petitio principii, this begging of the question, can subserve,... | |
 | John Harrison Stinson - 1879 - 220 pages
...he too along with the rest was overpowered by the dictum. And hence he says "It must be granted Dhat in every syllogism considered as an argument to prove...conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we gay all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, it is unanswerably urged by... | |
 | John Harrison Stinson - 1879 - 210 pages
...too along with the rest was overpowered' by the dictum. And henne he says "It must be granted ihat in every syllogism considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. \\ nen we say all men are mortal, Socrates is a mao, therefore Socrates is mortal, it is unanswerably... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1879 - 208 pages
...Major Premiss is but a register, a memorandum of that, to which experience has testified hitherto. When we say, " All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal," the conclusion does not follow from the assertion that all men are mortal, but that assertion is proved... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1880 - 474 pages
...nothing ever was or can be proved by syllogism which was not known, or assumed to be known, before. It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered...petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal ; Plato is a man ; .'. Plato is mortal, it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1880 - 344 pages
...nothing ever was or can be proved by syllogism which was not known, or assumed to be known, before. It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered...conclusion, there is a petitio principii. "When we say, AH men are mortal ; Plato is a man ; .'. Plato is mortal, it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1880 - 344 pages
...nothing ever was or can be proved by syllogism which was not known, or assumed to be known, before. It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered...argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio princ ipii. When we say, All men are mortal ; Plato is a man ; .'. Plato is mortal, it is unanswerably... | |
 | George Grote - 1880 - 708 pages
...Mill of the Functions and Logical Value of the Syllogism. — System of Logic, Book II ch. iii. sect. 2: — "It must be granted, that in every syllogism,...considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there ia a Petitio Priucipii," Ac. Pc-titio Principii, if ranked among the Fallacies, can hardly be extended... | |
 | James McCosh - 1880 - 486 pages
...should have a place in the formula which systematizes the spontaneous operation. But Mr. Mill tells us that "in every syllogism considered as an argument...prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii." But did any one ever maintain that the syllogism is " an argument to prove the conclusion?" It has... | |
 | 1883 - 536 pages
...principle which underlies the doctrine of the syllogism ? Give original examples illustrating this. 3. " It must be granted that in every syllogism considered...prove the conclusion there is a petitio principii." —Mill. If it be true that the conclusion of a syllogism asserts no new fact, of what logical value... | |
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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, is presupposed in the more general assumption, All men... 
