THE LANGUAGE OF LOGIC

BASIC TERMS

PROPOSITIONS
TERM
INFERRENCE

EXAMPLES

Proposition: All men are mortal, All oral

contracts for the sale of real estate are
invalid.
Term: All men: Middle term. Mortal: Major
term.

 ARGUMENT
PREMISE
CONCLUSION

DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE REASONING

DEDUCTIVE when conclusions are reached

from the general to the particular.
INDUCTIVE when conclusions reached by
reasoning from a number of particulars to the
general or from a particular to another particular.