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sitions as affirmative. 18. Convert the proposition "A is probably B." What information does the proposition give us concerning B? [S] 19. Show in how many ways you can deny the following assertions: All cathedral towns are all cities; Canterbury is the Metropolitan see. [S] 20. Explain the nature of a _hypothetical_ (or conditional) proposition. What do you consider the radical difference between it and a categorical? [S] 21. What is the function of the _copula_? In what different manners has it been treated? [S] 22. Convert "A killed C unjustly"; "All Knowledge is probably useful"; "The exception proves the rule"; "Birds of a feather flock together." [S] 23. What is modality? How are modals treated by (a) formal logic and (b) by the theory of induction? [S] 24. What is the subject of an impersonal proposition? Give reasons for your answer. [S] 25. Is the categorical proposition sufficiently described as referring a thing or things to a class? [S] 26. Enumerate the cases in which the truth or falsity of one proposition may be formally inferred from the truth or falsity of another. Illustrate these cases, and give to each its technical name. [S] 27. Illustrate the relation of Immediate Inferences to the Laws of Thought. 28. Explain what is meant by (a) Symbolic Logic; (b) the Logic of Relatives. Describe some method of representing propositions by means of diagrams; and indicate how far any particular theory of the import of propositions is involved in such representation. [S] 29. Explain the exact nature of the relation between two _Contradictory_ propositions; and define Conversion by Contraposition, determining what kind of propositions admit of such conversion. Give the contradictory and the contrapositive of each of the following propositions:-- (a) All equilateral triangles are equiangular; (b) No vertebrate animal has jaws opening sideways; (c) Wherever A and B are both present, either C or D is also present. [S] 30. Define Obversion and Inversion, and apply these processes also to the above three propositions. 31. Propositions can be understood either in extension or in intension. Explain this, and discuss the relative value of the two interpretations. [S] 32. Distinguish between real and verbal propositions; and explain the importance of the distinction. 33. Illustrate the process called 'change of Relation.' III. SYLLOGISM AND MEDIATE INFERENC
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