my question is this: i have a syllogism which is
some students study well in privacy
some small dorms do not provide enough privacy
some students do not study well in small dorms.
i am having a hard time figuring out what its
distribution is and what it’s mood is such as IEI-2
i do know that it’s figure is 2
Can anyone help me out there?
oh yeah sorry and can anyone answer the question in the title as well.
don’t worry this is not homework i am trying to study logic for my final exam and put this syllogism together and cannot figure it out
thanks
It doesn’t look like a valid syllogism to me, because “some students study well in privacy” doesn’t imply that those students don’t study well without privacy. So the fact that some small dorms don’t provide privacy only means that some students might not study well in those dorms; it doesn’t follow that they will not study well.
Pulling over my logic textbook (I hate this class) the syllogism is of the form IOO-2, which is an invalid form from both the Boolean and Aristotelian viewpoints.
At least, according to what I’ve learned.
thank you very much brianjedi
i hate this class as well
It is possible to do a “partial syllogism”, which is what you have constructed. Your syllogism leads to the conclusion that “some students study well in some dorms”. Nowhere in your premises do you state what conditions prevent them from studying well.
Why do you hate clear thinking?
Actually Dogface, that conclusion would require the assumed premise “Some small dorms provide enough privacy.” Even then, there is no guarantee that those students who study well in privacy would ever encounter those dorms.
dogface
i never said i hated clear thinking i just said that i hated logic class.