Without language, or something equivalent to it, there could only be as much reasoning from experience as can take place without the aid of general propositions.
General propositions may be, and are, formed, which assert that whenever certain properties are found, certain others are found along with them.
General propositions are a record of such inferences, and the rules of the syllogism are rules for the interpretation of the record 214 5.
The province of logic must be restricted to that portion of our knowledge which consists of inferences from truths previously known; whether those antecedent data be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions.
Induction for us is general propositions, contemplated as such, derived from particulars.
General Propositions to be treated of more at large.
The first part investigates what propositions are and what forms they may have; this part enumerates the different kinds of atomic propositions, of molecular propositions, of general propositions, and so on.
We will call propositions containing the word "some" negative general propositions, and those containing the word "all" positive general propositions.
Two opposite points are to be observed concerning a priori general propositions.
And more particularly, how can there be knowledge of general propositions in cases where we have not examined all the instances, and indeed never can examine them all, because their number is infinite?
You do not believe in the value of general propositions--you do not believe in convictions?
Observe that these methods, though called Inductive, are not concerned with arriving at general propositions.
What Mill calls the uniformities of Nature, the uniformities expressed in general propositions, are from the point of view of the observer, examples of repeated coincidence.
There are two sources of general propositions, according to Aristotle, Induction and Nous.
The debates in which Aristotle's pupils were interested turned mainly on the proof or disproof of general propositions; if only a proposition could be shown to be not universal, it did not matter how far or how little short it came.
In respect to Order in Place, as well as in respect to Resemblance, some mathematical truths are the only general propositions which, as being independent of Causation, require separate consideration.
Two straight lines cannot enclose a space) as also the demonstrable ones; and so have all sciences some exactly true general propositions: e.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general propositions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
