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114 IMPORT OF PROPOSITIONS AND JUDGMENTS.
What different views have been held as to the nature of
Predication ? [O.]
(2) Explain and discuss carefully the following theories of
the judgment :
of two ideas."
(a) "Judgment is the comparison
(fy "Judgment
is the statement of a relation between
(c)
attributes."
"
Judgment is the reference of a significant idea to
Reality." [St A.]
(3) Explain and discuss the view that the itltimate subject
of every judgment is reality. [St A.]
(4) What objections lie against the view that the predicate
of a logical proposition should be written as a quantity ? [O.]
(5) Bring out the meaning of each of the following
"
accounts of the proposition All men are mortal," and say
which is logically to be preferred :
(a) All men have the attribute mortality.
(b) Men mortal men.
(c) Men form part of the class mortals.
(d) If a subject has the attributes of a man, it also has
the attribute mortality. [L.]
(6) Examine the case for expressing propositions in the
form of Equations (a) from the theoretic, (b) from the
practical point of view. [L.]
(7) State the chief theories of the Import of Propositions.
On what theory does the adoption of A, E, I, and O, as the
fundamental forms, rest ? Criticise the additional forms
which arise when the quantification of the Predicate is
adopted. [C.]
(8) Explain the precise meaning of the "
proposition Some
"
X s are not some Y s (the proposition w of Thomson). What
is its contradictory ? Give your opinion of its importance. [L.]
(9) Examine critically the view that the significance of the
proposition
"
"
"
All S is P is fully and best given in the form
There is no S which is not-P." [L.]
(10) What do you consider to be the essential distinction
between the Subject and Predicate of a Judgment?
Apply your answer to the :
following
" From hence thy warrant is thy sword."
* That is exactly what I wanted." [C.]