30. Some comets revolve in hyperbolic orbits.' I. Particular affirmative as it stands. 31. The dividends are paid half-yearly.' A. 'The dividends' includes all so known. 32. ‘Ου τὸ μεγα εὖ ἐστι, το δ' εὖ μεγα. O and A. This must mean that not all great things are good (0), but that all good things are great (A). There are three classes of things-great and good; great and not-good; not-great and not-good. 33. 'It is force alone which can produce a change of motion.' A. It what can produce, etc. = The meaning is, Whatever produces a change of motion is some kind of force; but there is no assertion that force = whatever produces, etc. 34. 'We have no king but Caesar.' As it stands, A; but the meaning conveyed implies that 'Caesar is our king'; 'Nobody who is not Caesar is our king.' 35. 'It is true that what is settled by custom though it be not good, yet at least it is fit.' Complex; three propositions in all. 36. 'God did not make man, and leave it to Aristotle to make him rational.' A simple and a singular negative proposition; the 'not' applies to all that follows conjunctively, for of course Locke could not have intended to assert that 'God did not make man.' E. 37. Dublin is the only city in Europe, save Rome, which has two cathedrals.' Compound sentence implying three propositions, namely— Dublin has two cathedrals. A. All European cities, not being Dublin and not being Rome, have not two cathedrals. E. 38. The affections are love, hatred, joy, sorrow, hope, fear, and anger.' Really a disjunctive proposition. Affection is either love, or hatred, or, etc. This implies that love is an affection, hatred is an affection, etc. CHAPTER IV EXERCISES IN THE DISCRIMINATION OF PROPOSITIONS I. EXAMINE each of the following propositions, and point out in succession (a) Which is the subject. (b) Which is the predicate. (c) Whether the proposition is affirmative or negative. (d) Whether it appears to be universal or particular. (e) Whether there is ambiguity or other peculiarity in the proposition. (1) All foraminifera are marine organisms. (2) They never pardon who have done the wrong. (3) Great is Diana of the Ephesians. (4) No mammalia are parasites. (5) Non progredi est regredi. (6) Not every one can integrate a differential equation. (7) All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. (8) He that is not for us is against us. (9) Αριστον μὲν ὕδωρ. (10) Men mostly hate those whom they have injured. (11) Old age necessarily brings decay. (12) Nothing morally wrong is politically right. (13) What I have written I have written. (14) It is not good for man to be alone. (15) A certain man had a fig-tree. (16) Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά. (17) There's something rotten in the state of Denmark. (18) To be or not to be, that is the question. (19) Ye are my disciples, if ye do all I have said unto you. (20) Possunt qui posse videntur. (21) There can be no effect without a cause. (22) Rien n'est beau que le vrai. (23) Pauci laeta arva tenemus. (24) All cannot receive this saying. (25) Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall. (26) There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. (27) Not to know me argues thyself unknown. (28) Two blacks won't make a white. (29) Few men are free from vanity. (30) He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. (31) We are what we are. (32) There is none good but one. (33) Two straight lines cannot inclose space. (34) Better late than never. (35) Cruel laws increase crime. (36) Omnes omnia bona dicere. (37) Le génie n'est qu'une plus grande aptitude à la patience. (38) Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild. beast or a god. (39) Summum jus summa injuria. (40) Non omnes moriemur inulti. (41) Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco. (42) Familiarity breeds contempt. (43) Some politicians cannot read the signs of the times. (44) Only the ignorant affect to despise knowledge. (45) Recte ponitur; vere scire esse per causas scire. (46) Only Captain Webb is able to swim across the Channel. (47) Some books are to be read only in parts. (48) E pur si muove. (49) Civilisation and Christianity are coextensive. (50) Some men are not incapable of telling falsehoods. (51) Sunt nonnulli acuendis puerorum ingeniis non inutiles lusus. (52) All is not true that seems so. (53) Me miserable. (54) The Claimant, Arthur Orton, and Castro are in all probability the same person. (55) The three angles of a triangle are necessarily equal to two right angles. (56) Many rules of grammar overload the memory. (57) Nullius exitium patitur natura videri. (58) Summae artis est occultare artem. (59) Wonderful are the results of science and industry in recent years. (60) Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. (61) A healthy nature may or may not be great; but there is no great nature that is not healthy. (62) Quas dederis solas semper habebis opes. (66) That would hang us, every mother's son. (69) A friend should bear a friend's infirmities. |