Further Study
of Simple Syllogisms:
Chapter 1: Figure in Syllogisms
Chapter 2: Mood in Syllogisms
Chapter 3: Reducing Syllogisms
to First Figure Moods
Chapter 4: Indirect Reduction of Syllogisms
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Arguments
in Ordinary Language:
Chapter 5: Translating Ordinary
Sentences into Logical Statements
Chapter 6: Enthymemes
Case Study: Rene Descartes: "I think, therefore,
I am"
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Hypothetical
Syllogisms:
Chapter 7: Conditional Syllogisms
Case Study: Plato: The Power of Love
Chapter 8: Disjunctive Syllogisms
Case Study: C. S. Lewis: The Trilemma
Chapter 9: Conjunctive Syllogisms
Case Study: The Bible: "You cannot serve both God and Mammon"
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Complex Syllogisms:
Chapter 10: Polysyllogisms
and Aristotelian Sorites
Case Study: Seneca: "The Virtuous Life"
Chapter 11: Goclenian Sorites
and Conditional Sorites
Case Study: William Shakespeare: "Thou art in a parlous state,
shepherd"
Chapter 12: Epicheirema
Case Study: St. Thomas Aquinas: The Cosmological Argument
for the Existence of God
Chapter 13: The Dilemma
Case
Study: David Hume: The Problem of Evil
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The Logic
of Relations:
Chapter 14: The Oblique Syllogism
Case Study: John Cassian: Is Mary the Mother of God?
Chapter 15: Review
Selections from Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare,
St. Paul and St. Thomas
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