INSTRUCTIONS
For each of the following arguments,
a. Translate the argument into standard form.
b. Name the mood and figure of its standard-form translation.
c. Test its validity using the rules and mood. If it is valid, give its traditional name.
d. If it is invalid, name the fallacy it commits.
2. … no names come in contradictory pairs; but all predicables come in contradictory pairs; therefore no name is a predicable.
—Peter Thomas Geach, Reference and Generality
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980)
Ans:
Standard Form translation:
a.All predicables come in contradictory pairs
b. No names come in contradictory pairs
c.Therefore, no name is predicable
Mood and figure: AEE-2
Valid; Camestres
INSTRUCTIONS For each of the following arguments, a. Translate the argument into standard form. b. Name the mood and fig...
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