Logic Exercises (Categorical Propositions)
Students who want to see how well they are picking up the things discussed in class can try their hand at the following optional exercises. Answers will be posted in a few days.
For each of the following, identify the subject term, the predicate term, the quantity, and the quality. You may rewrite the sentences to make it easier, as long as the meaning is not clearly changed.
1. Some quick brown foxes jump over the lazy dog.
2. All five boxing wizards jump quickly.
3. Franz speeds through Bavaria in a totally rundown taxi.
4. Any quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats.
5. No more shall I see acacias or myrtles in the golden clearing.
6. Every world has a beginning.
7. Philosophy begins in wonder. (Plato)
8. There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. (Cicero)
9. The unexamined life is not worth living. (Plato)
10. All men desire to know. (Aristotle)
