Chapters
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You’ve been using definitions for as long as you can remember. It’s high time you understood what you’ve been doing.
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Division may be one of the most powerful tools ever invented for teaching or learning–but it has to be done correctly. We’ll explore the four major requirements for good division.
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We’ve finally learned enough material logic to understand two of the most powerful ways we use logic in education and in professional life: division and definition. We start with division.
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We conclude our discussion of the Five Predicables by considering the two non-essential predicables of property and accident.
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As we shift from the Ten Categories to the Five Predicables, we also shift from the perspective of intension to the perspective of extension. In this lecture, we learn the vocabulary and the analytical tools necessary to understand how everything relates (in terms of extension) to the many universals that can be used to describe
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OK, we know the Ten Categories. So what? What can we do with them? But also in this lecture, we work some of the examples from pp. 72 and 76 of our text.