(4) “All the trees of the yard make a thick shade and this is one of them.”
(5) “Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range, and his is such a mind.”
(6) “The best of all medicines are fresh air and sleep, and you are sorely in need of both.”
(7) “Every hen comes from an egg; every egg comes from a hen; therefore every egg comes from an egg.”
(8) “He cannot have been there――otherwise I should have seen him.”
(14) “It is fair to give the author the benefit of the doubt when we set ourselves up as censors worthy of the name.” Explain this.
(15) Illustrate by citing arguments the need of detecting terms which are equivalents in signification.
(16) How does the logician look upon number and tense as treated in grammar?
(17) Illustrate and test an argument in which one of the premises is elliptical.
(18) Summarize the most common mistakes made by students in the testing of categorical arguments; illustrate these mistakes and then write in logical form.
=10. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.=
(1) Give illustrations of arguments which are valid in form but invalid in meaning. Explain.
(2) May an argument be valid in meaning but invalid in form? Exemplify.
(3) Put a simple problem in arithmetic in syllogistic form and show that the minor premise naturally comes first.
(4) In the practice of law is there any custom analogous to giving the author the benefit of the doubt in logical argumentation?
(5) Test in detail the following arguments:
(1) “All wise presidents strive to give heed to the demands of the people, but this president has not done so.”
(2) “The existence of God is not universally believed, hence it cannot be true.”
(3) “The institution has prospered under the present régime therefore why change it?”
(4) “The man is guilty because seven out of the nine witnesses so testified.”
(5) “I know three men who cleared not less than ten thousand dollars in this business; and why cannot I do as much?”
(6) “Only members may vote and, since you are not a member, you will not be allowed to vote.” Change the exclusive in this argument in the two ways suggested in Chapter 8, page 126. Test the argument in both cases.
(7) Show by illustration that the quantity sign “_all_” when used with “_not_” may in some cases mean “_no_” and in others “_some-not_”.