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CROSS QUESTIONS.

        "The Man in the Wilderness asked of me
         'How many strawberries grow in the sea?'"
                      __________
  1. Elementary.
  1. What is an 'Attribute'? Give examples.
  1. When is it good sense to put "is" or "are" between two names? Give examples.
  1. When is it NOT good sense? Give examples.
  1. When it is NOT good sense, what is the simplest agreement to make, in order to make good sense?
  1. Explain 'Proposition', 'Term', 'Subject', and 'Predicate'. Give examples.
  1. What are 'Particular' and 'Universal' Propositions? Give examples.
  1. Give a rule for knowing, when we look at the smaller Diagram, what Attributes belong to the things in each compartment.
  1. What does "some" mean in Logic? [See pp. 55, 6]
  1. In what sense do we use the word 'Universe' in this Game?
  1. What is a 'Double' Proposition? Give examples.
  1. When is a class of Things said to be 'exhaustively' divided? Give examples.
  1. Explain the phrase "sitting on the fence."
  1. What two partial Propositions make up, when taken together, "all x are y"?
  1. What are 'Individual' Propositions? Give examples.
  1. What kinds of Propositions imply, in this Game, the EXISTENCE of their Subjects?
  1. When a Proposition contains more than two Attributes, these Attributes may in some cases be re-arranged, and shifted from one Term to the other. In what cases may this be done? Give examples.

Break up each of the following into two partial Propositions:

  1. All tigers are fierce.
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