PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Socialized Medicine, Syllogism, Venn Diagram

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sardar Hosseini

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Categorical statements categorical statements make simple assertions about categories or classes, of things ex: all cows are herbivores. Some business people are not moral. categorical syllogism consists of three parts: Conclusion ex: all humans are mortal (major premise) Any premise that has the predicate of the conclusion is the major. Any premise that has the subject of the conclusion is the minor a categorical claim (premise) contains two distinct categories ex: all humans are mortal in logic we call these categories: Four standard forms (pure forms: all business people are, no business people are, some business people are cheaters. cheaters. cheaters. cheaters, some business people are not. We symbolize them as: all s are p. (universal. Affirmation ) =ua: no s are p. (universal negation) Affirmation) =pa: some s are not p. (particular. Anyone who is an astronaut must be intelligent. None but (except) intelligent people are astronauts. (all astronauts are intelligent people)