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In the last figure a true conclusion may come through what
is false,
alike when both premisses are wholly false, when each is
partly false,
when one premiss is wholly true, the other false, when one premiss
is partly false, the other wholly true, and vice versa, and in every
other way in which it is possible to alter the premisses. |
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For (1)
nothing prevents neither A nor B from belonging to any C, while A
belongs to some B, e.g. neither man nor footed follows anything
lifeless, though man belongs to some footed things. |
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(2) Also if each premiss is partly false, the conclusion may be
true. |
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(3) Similarly if one of the premisses assumed is wholly false, the
other wholly true. |
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(4) Again if one premiss is wholly true, the other partly
false, the
conclusion may be true. |
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(5) It is clear also in the case of particular syllogisms that a
true conclusion may come through what is false, in every
possible way. |
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It is clear then that if the conclusion is false, the premisses of
the argument must be false, either all or some of them; |