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Art Of Logical Thinking

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1 - Reasoning - 2 - Process of Reasoning - 3 - The Concept - 4 - The Use of Concepts - 5 - Concepts and Images - 6 - Terms - 7 - Meaning of Terms - 8 - Judgments - 9 - Propositions - 10 - Immediate Reasoning - 11 - Inductive Reasoning - 12 - Reasoning by Induction - 13 - Theory and Hypotheses - 14 - Making and Testing Hypotheses - 15 - Deductive Reasoning - 16 - The Syllogism - 17 - Varieties of Syllogisms - 18 - Reasoning by Analogy - 19 - Fallacies -

divided, the species. "Animal is a genus of which man is a species; while man, in turn, is a genus of which Caucasian is a species; and Caucasian, in turn, becomes a genus of which Socrates becomes a species. The student must avoid confusing the logical meaning of the terms genus and species with the use of the same terms in Natural History. Each class is a "genus" to the class below it in extension; and each class is a "species" to the class above it in extension. At the lowest extreme of the scale we reach what is called the infima species, which cannot be further subdivided, as for instance "Socrates" — this lowest species must always be an individual object, person or thing. At the highest extreme of the scale we reach what is summum genus, or highest genus, which is never a species of anything, for there is no class higher than it, as for instance, "being, existence, reality, truth, the absolute, the infinite, the ultimate," etc. Hyslop says: "In reality there is but one summum genus, while there may be an indefinite number of infimae species. All intermediate terms between these extremes are sometimes called subalterns, as being

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