Syllogisms Flashcards
What is the name of a syllogism?
Mood + Figure
What is figure 1?
AMP
ASM
What is figure 2?
APM
ASM
What is figure 3?
AMP
AMS
What is figure 4?
APM
AMS
From 2 Universal premises, the conclusion must be…
Universal
From 1 Particular premise, the conclusion must be…
Particular
From 2 Particular premises, the conclusion must be…
No valid conclusion.
From 2 Affirmative premises, the conclusion must be…
Affirmative
From 1 Negative premise, the conclusion must be…
Negative.
From 2 Negative premises, the conclusion must be…
No valid conclusion.
The middle term must be…
Distributed at least once.
If a term is distributed in the conclusion, then that term…
…must be distributed in its premise.
A distributes…
the subject term only.
E distributes…
The subject term and the predicate term.
