2. What is Reasoning?
3. Define Normative Science.
4. Define Universal Proposition with example.
5. State two utilities of using symbols in Logic.
6. Name two valid moods of the 1st figure.
7. Transform the following sentences into proposition and signify it
with proposition symbol.
a) Every man is mortal. +4172
b) Only the matriculates are students of this college.
8. Define middle term with example.
Answers
2. The action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.
3. In the applied sciences, normative science is a type of information that is developed, presented, or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular outcome, policy or class of policies or outcomes.
4. Universal proposition - (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class. universal. logic - the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference. proposition - (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false.
5. The importance of symbolic logic is that first - it formalizes the process of mathematical reasoning, second - it removes the “meaning” from reasoning allow reasoning to be carried out symbolically without any concern for meaning.
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8. In logic, a middle term is a term that appears in both premises but not in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. Example: Major premise: All men are mortal. Minor premise: Socrates is a man. Conclusion: Socrates is mortal. The middle term is bolded above.