An introductory text-book of logic - Mellone, Sydney - Rare Books at ...

68 THE LOGICAL PROPOSITION.
(9) (a) Nobody undertook these studies but was incapable
of pursuing them successfully.
(b) Honesty is not always the easiest (c)
policy.
One man is as good as another.
(d) Nothing succeeds like success.
(10) (a) Life is change.
(b) Probability is the (c)
guide of life.
Plants are devoid of the (cT)
power of movement.
There is no limit to the amount of meaning which
a term may have,
(i i) (a) To think is to be full of sorrow.
(b) There is none righteous, no, not one.
(c) No child ever fails to be troublesome if ill-taught
and spoilt.
(d) No one can be rich and happy unless he is
prudent
also
and temperate, and not always then. [G.]
(12) Express in a single proposition of the simplest logical
form the sense of each of the following sentences :
(1) If the sky were to fall, we should catch larks.
(2) It never rains but it pours.
(3) Many are (4)
called, but few are chosen.
Unless (5)
(6)
help arrives, we are beaten.
You cannot eat your cake and have it.
Use every man after his deserts, and who should
scape whipping ? [O.]
(13) Express as adequately as you can in a single pro
position of the simplest logical form the sense of each of the
sentences :
following
(1) A man may smile and smile and be a villain.
(2) Few men think, but all have opinions.
(3) When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks.
(4) Oblige her, and she ll hate you while you live.
(5) Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. [O.]
(14) Analyse the following into a group of simple logical
" The possibility of arriving at general know
propositions :
ledge by means of experience which is the aim of all
science involves the assumption that the world is a rational
world, and, therefore, not a world where events are casual,
but one where they are causal, and hence are intelligibly
connected with what goes before and follows after them."