Basic Logic Lesson

[Unome]

I'm going to write a brief little note here about the difference between propositions and prepositions.

Propositional statements and arguments almost always have three essential traits/characteristics:
1. Thesis
2. Antithesis
3. Synthesis

Example argument:
Person A: "Apples are green." (thesis)
Person B: "Well this apple is red. Thus apples are red." (antithesis)
Person A: "Fine then some apples are green –and– some apples are red." (synthesis)


Prepositional statements and arguments tend to be literal definitions and analogies.

Prepositional statements and arguments generally do not have a synthesis, and sometimes do not have an antithesis:
1. Thesis
2. Antithesis

Example statement:
"Bachelors are (defined as) unmarried men."

There is no antithesis to this statement; because it is definitive. Bachelors = Unmarried men. There is no converse statement and no contradiction. Because the act of defining terms sets them in a type of permanence. This is the major difference between prepositions and propositions. Prepositions are set, and focused on, their presumed, underlying definitions.

[Breedingvariety]

1. Thesis
2. Antithesis
3. Synthesis
Dialectics is not logical, because antithesis doesn't follow from thesis and synthesis doesn't follow from thesis and antithesis. You can propose anything.

There is no antithesis to this statement; because it is definitive. Bachelors = Unmarried men. There is no converse statement and no contradiction. Because the act of defining terms sets them in a type of permanence. This is the major difference between prepositions and propositions. Prepositions are set, and focused on, their presumed, underlying definitions.
Suppositions are not logical. You say prepositions. Pre means before something in time. What are prepositions prior to?

There is only one rule of logic: nothing can be true and false at the same time and in the same respect.

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[Unome]

Dialectics is not logical, because antithesis doesn't follow from thesis and synthesis doesn't follow from thesis and antithesis. You can propose anything.
According to logical principles, what you propose must be rational, valid, and/or sound. Truth is a value judgment.



Suppositions are not logical. You say prepositions. Pre means before something in time. What are prepositions prior to?
Definitions and premises.

Prepositions are the formulations of statements, meaning, and arguments. Prepositions are the foundation of logic.