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Ad Hominem
1. In contemporary logic an argument that negatively refocuses concern on the character of one’s interlocutor, distracting from the subject matter under discussion. Such an argument is regularly cons...
Argument
The logical term for the product of the third operation of the intellect, i.e., reasoning. More precisely, it is a set of propositions in which the truth of some propositions (the premises) is suppose...
Categories
(also called Predicaments) 1. In Aristotelian philosophy, the supreme or ultimate genera or most general classes of being. There are ten: substance and nine accidents. The accidents are: quantity, qua...
Conclusion
The proposition in an argument whose truth is supposed to be entailed by the truth of the premises. (For an example, see ARGUMENT)
Contradiction
The logical relationship between a universal affirmative proposition and a particular negative proposition with the same terms, or between a universal negative proposition and a particular affirmative...
Contrariety
1. The logical relationship between a universal affirmative proposition and a universal negative proposition with the same terms. Contrary propositions cannot both at the same time be true but can bot...
Copula
A form of the verb “to be” (“is,” “are,” etc.) that unites the subject and predicate of a proposition. In the following affirmative proposition, “is” is the copula uniting “cat” and “mat”: “The cat is...
Definition
1. Real Definition. The articulation of the essence of a thing either directly (by reference to the essence itself) or indirectly (by reference to the thing’s material cause, efficient cause, final ca...
Demonstration
In the strict sense, a sound argument that produces science of the conclusion in the person who is able to follow the argument. According to the material logic of the Aristotelian tradition, scientif...
Dialectics
In general, a process of discursive knowing that weighs both sides of an argument in the attempt to discover truth. More specifically, in classical logic, that branch of material logic that uses commo...

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