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18 Cards in this Set
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Simple Definition of Logic
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A study of the human person's natural process of thinking.
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Complex Definition of Logic
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The science and the art which can help human beings to become more perfectly clear, correct, critical and consistent in their natural process of thinking at three levels; simply apprehending, judging and reasoning.
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Science
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The intellectual activity of discovering the natural pattern of human thinking.
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Art
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The intellectual activity of making new patterns to facilitate the natural pattern of thinking.
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Simply Apprehending
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The intellectual activity of attaining the essence of something without affirming or denying anything about it.
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Judging
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The intellectual activity of affirming or denying one idea of another idea.
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Reasoning
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The intellectual activity of concluding to a knowledge of some new truth from truths already known.
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Formal Logic
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Reasoning which follows exact rules.
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Informal Logic
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Reasoning which does not follow exact rules
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Material Logic
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Concerned with the truth and the falsity of the premises of an argument
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Material Logic
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Concerned with the truth and the falsity of the premises of an argument, with whether or not the premises of an argument are or are not in harmony with reality
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Inductive Logic
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Dealing with the reasoning which begins with singular instances and proceeds to a universal or general principle.
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Deductive Logic
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Dealing with reasoning that begins with a universal or general principle (truth) and proceeds all the way down to a singular instance.
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Idea
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An abstract impression, which is the product of an act of simple apprehension (apprehending).
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Term
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One word or many words which express a complete thought
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Sign
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That which represents something other than itself to a knowing being.
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natural sign
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A sign determined by nature
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Artificial sign
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A sign determined by human persons either by agreement or usage.
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