Mark the term each clue names
Exercise and reference answers
- Clues and terms
- Clue
- The term shared by both premises, by which the other two are compared.
- Item
- Middle term
- Clue
- The term standing as predicate of the conclusion.
- Item
- Major term
- Clue
- The term standing as subject of the conclusion.
- Item
- Minor term
- Clue
- The evidentiary propositions offered to prove the point.
- Item
- Premises
- Clue
- The proposition established by comparing two others.
- Item
- Conclusion
- Clue
- An argument with one premise, or its conclusion, left unstated.
- Item
- Enthymeme
- Clue
- A chain of arguments whose middle conclusions are all suppressed.
- Item
- Sorites
- Clue
- A syllogism with a reason attached to one or both of its premises.
- Item
- Epicheirema
- Clue
- A specious argument that wears the form but is not really valid.
- Item
- Parasyllogism
- Instructions
- Read each call, tap its term on the board. Three in a line is bingo.
Explanation
_Source: Carveth Read, Logic: Deductive and Inductive (1914, public domain), Chapter IX, Formal Conditions of Mediate Inference, section 2_