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This instructional book presents a logic game played with a diagram and nine counters. It explains how to express propositions through the relationship between things and their attributes.

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CROOKED ANSWERS.

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     |    ---|---    |
     |   | 1 | 0 |   |
19.  |---|---|---|---|        -------
     |   |   |   |   |       | 1 |   |
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       Let "periods" be Universe; m="days";
            x="rainy"; y="tiresome".
         Some m are x; &there4 Some x are y.
         All xm are y.
              i.e.  Some rainy periods are tiresome.

N.B. These are not legitimate Premisses, since the Conclusion is really part of the second Premiss, so that the first Premiss is superfluous. This may be shown, in letters, thus:--

"All xm are y" contains "Some xm are y", which contains "Some x are y". Or, in words, "All rainy days are tiresome"

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