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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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CROSS QUESTIONS.

  1. All hard-boiled eggs are unwholesome.
  1. I am happy.
  1. John is not at home.

[See pp. 56, 7]

  1. Give a rule for knowing, when we look at the larger Diagram, what Attributes belong to the Things contained in each compartment.
  1. Explain 'Premisses', 'Conclusion', and 'Syllogism'. Give examples.
  1. Explain the phrases 'Middle Term' and 'Middle Terms'.
  1. In marking a pair of Premisses on the larger Diagram, why is it best to mark NEGATIVE Propositions before AFFIRMATIVE ones?
  1. Why is it of no consequence to us, as Logicians, whether the Premisses are true or false?

How can we work Syllogisms in which

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