This is one among Aristotle's ways of bringing to view what modern logicians describe as the double function of the substantive verb--to serve as copula in predication, and to predicate existence.
In other words, an enumeration and classification of Fallacies forms the closing section of a treatise on Logic--according to the philosophical arrangement originating with Aristotle, and copied by most logicians after him.
Aristotle here recognizes an attribute as "individual and as numerically one;" and various other logicianshave followed him.
Modern logicians join the Categories side by side with the five Predicables, which are explained in the Eisagoge of Porphyry, more than five centuries after Aristotle's death.
Whence logicians are wont to say that the substantive is considered in the light of suppositum, whereas the adjective indicates something added to the suppositum.
For, as the logicians say, "a singular term signifies what it stands for.
One of the greatest logicians of modern times, the late M.
Gifted, beyond all the sons of men, with the most exquisite perception of form, both physical and metaphysical, they could become geometers and logicians as they became sculptors and artists; beyond that they could hardly rise.
So far the modern logicians have for some time been in substantial agreement.
One of the chief differences between logicians and men of letters is that the latter mean many different things by one word, whereas the former do not--at least nowadays.
This fact, or phenomenon, is what the Aristotelian logicians called the fundamentum relationis.
This axiom, supposed to be the basis of the syllogistic theory, is termed by logicians the dictum de omni et nullo.
Logicians have been remarkably unanimous in their mode of answering this question.
We review our syllogistic as well as our inductive processes, and recognise that they have been correctly performed; but logicians do not add a third premise to the syllogism, to express this act of recognition.
Definitions of this kind are what logicians have had in view, when they laid down the rule, that the definition of a species should be per genus et differentiam.
These logicians seek to cover their teachings with the splendour of Aristotle's name; they claim that Aristotle was wont to argue in the same way.
Nay, this ill is now rather peculiar to islands, as we shall find if we add the logicians of Britain to the new Cyclopes about Ætna.
By the contents of an idealogicians understand whatever is contained in its definition, so that an idea is distinctly apprehended, according to them, when we can give a precise definition of it, in abstract terms.
Logicians cannot make the meaning of any but scientific terms: that of all other words is made by the collective human race.
Do you mean to tell us that all these Logicians are wrong?
For example, if you were to put before one of these Logicians the Pair of Premisses "No honest men cheat; No dishonest men are trustworthy.
The study of terms, for which logicians have provided multiplied means, is one of the most interesting and profitable upon which men can enter.
It has been insisted by some logicians that the genius required for its construction was invention.
This could be accomplished only gradually, and the logicians have, therefore, remained more or less biased and confused.
Eternal is only war in peace and peace in war, although that may seem senseless to the logicians of the old school.
The product of the philosophical investigation which we here offer amounts to the declaration that the logicians are greatly mistaken about the "arch fountain.
At closer range you will notice that all great logicians occupy themselves a great deal with God and deity, and that on the other hand all honest theologians are trying to base their faith on some logical order.
To such a reproach, I answer that Aristotle and the subsequent formal logicians have made some pretty pointed observations and excellent arrangements in this field.
There exists a class of logicians who attempt to deny the inevitable connection between the celestial region and the tangible universe.
For this reason it does not satisfy us to have some logicians tell us how many kinds of concepts, judgments and conclusions are contained in our intellect.
The formal logicians treat the intellect as a thing "in itself," while I express in many different ways the fact that the intellect does not exist by itself, but is interconnected with all things and with the universe.
Logicians and detectives and jurymen and suspicious wives and members of the Royal Astronomic Society recognize this indeterminateness, but have the delusion that in the method of agreement there is final, or real evidence.
This was a double inclusion: or it's the method of agreement that logicians make so much of.
Divines are half starved, naturalists out of heart, astrologers laughed at, and logicians slighted; only the physician is worth all the rest.
Add to these our logicians and sophists, a generation of men more prattling than an echo and the worst of them able to outchat a hundred of the best picked gossips.
The following examples of abstract propositions are often used by logicians as tending toward a clearer conception than examples such as given above: (A) "All A is B.
A great many of the arguments which we daily use are of this nature; but there are a great many other kinds of arguments, some of which have never been understood by logicians until recent years.
Logicians say that the number of things to which a term applies is the extension of the term; while the number of qualities or peculiarities implied is the intension.
Logicians have arranged elaborate and curious tables constructed to show what kinds of propositions when joined in a particular order of arrangement will make sound and valid syllogisms.
Yet logicians also had soon to note that even formally there was something wrong about this syllogistic form.
What the artist long ago taught us, that there are no lines in nature, the scientist has come to believe, and perhaps in time the logicians will come to see it too.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "logicians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
