syllogism

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Jevons's own pedagogical textbook, Elementary Lessons in Logic, describes the Logic Piano in Lesson XXIII (pp.191–201) — sixty to seventy pages past the lessons Aikins quotes to the page

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, logic-piano, history-of-logic, quote-provenance
Jevons's own pedagogical logic textbook describes the Logic Piano; Aikins (1902), who quotes that same textbook by page number while rejecting rule-following, never engages with the machine — scope mismatch within one book, not chronological irrelevance

capture promoted 2026-10-07 · jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, logic-piano, argument-from-silence, mcgrew
Which of Jevons's own logic texts supplies the 'p. 82'/'p. 83' conversion rules and the eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' Aikins quotes in his 1902 Principles of Logic?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, conversion, quote-provenance
Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, Lesson X (pp.81–87), is the text behind Aikins's "Jevons, p. 82" and "Jevons, p. 83" conversion-rule citations

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, conversion, quote-provenance
Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, Lesson XV, "The Rules of the Syllogism" (pp.126–131), is the text behind the eight numbered rules Aikins reproduces in his Ch. XVI footnote

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-01 · william-stanley-jevons, herbert-austin-aikins, syllogism, quote-provenance, history-of-logic
Aikins's own 1902 syllogism-rule chapters (Ch. XI, XVI) quote and contest Jevons's stated rules directly, independent of the jingle-fallacy chapter

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance
In Chapter XI of his 1902 Principles of Logic, Aikins quotes Jevons's stated conversion rules verbatim with page citations, then argues in his own words that no such rule can be followed 'blindly'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, conversion
In Chapter XVI of his 1902 Principles of Logic, Aikins reproduces Jevons's eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' verbatim in a footnote, then dismisses mechanical rule-following as inferior to his own interpretive method

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance
Aikins's 1902 Preface states, before any chapter begins, that his deductive-logic treatment deliberately omits 'the traditional rules of the syllogism' in favor of his own stated 'principles'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · jingle-fallacy, herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, history-of-logic
Which of Jevons's own logic texts supplies the 'p. 82'/'p. 83' conversion rules and the eight numbered 'rules of the syllogism' Aikins quotes in his 1902 Principles of Logic?

question answered 2026-09-30 · herbert-austin-aikins, william-stanley-jevons, syllogism, quote-provenance, history-of-logic