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A question on contrapositives and predicates
So I am a freshman taking an intro class to logic. And the question started off from a class exercise we've got which asked us to identify the covering generalization for the following conditional ...
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Seeking clarification of how an argument from Aristotle is found fallacious using Frege's quantification tools
G. E. M. Anscombe writes in An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (page 15-16):
Again, the following fallacious piece of reasoning is found in Aristotle: 'All chains of means to ends must ...
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Is the reiteration rule in formal logic begging the question?
Wikipedia defines "begging the question" as
To "beg the question" is to put forward an argument whose validity
requires that its own conclusion is true.
I assume this is something Aristotle's ...
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Can inductive arguments be made in first order logic and, if not, why not?
After reading a question by rus9384 Why is faulty generalization called an informal fallacy? I wondered whether induction can be part of any argument in first order logic (FOL).
rus9384 symbolized ...
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