Question
Aristotle’s Prior Analytics is in the Organon (“or-guh-NON”), a collection of six books on this branch of philosophy. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this branch of philosophy that uses deductive reasoning to reach conclusions. Propositions connected by operators can be represented more simply through this branch’s “symbolic” form.
ANSWER: philosophical logic [accept deductive logic; accept symbolic logic]
[10m] The Prior Analytics coined the name for these arguments that derive a conclusion from a major and minor premise. A classic one of these arguments is “Socrates is a man. All men are mortal. Thus, Socrates is mortal.”
ANSWER: syllogism [or syllogismos or syllogistic arguments]
[10h] To be sound, a syllogism must have true premises and this other property. For an argument to have this property, its conclusion must logically follow from its premises.
ANSWER: validity
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 33% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 89% | 56% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 29% | 43% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 14 | 10.71 | 93% | 14% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 44% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 57% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 89% | 44% | 33% |
Data
| Miami A (UG) | Michigan C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| CWRU C (UG) | Miami C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan State A | Michigan D (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State C (DII) | Michigan State B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A (UG) | Miami B (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| West Virginia A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| CWRU B (DII) | CWRU A (UG) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |