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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5da2f663-2730-403b-93e2-4aa4ed8d179d/1FAA4982-6909-418C-BB4D-846A9FF116AF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm" href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm" style="font-size: 11px;"></a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><H1>Fallacy of the Four Terms<BR />(<I>quaternio terminorum</I>)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><UL>A <A href="http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/cat_form.htm">standard 
      form categorical syllogism contains four </A><A href="http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/terms.htm">terms</A>. 
    </UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><B>Definition:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><B>Examples:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><UL>(i) All dogs are animals, and all cats are mammals, so all dogs are 
      mammals. 
      <DL>
        <DD>The four terms are: dogs, animals, cats and mammals.</DD></DL>
      <DL>
        <DD><B>Note:</B>In many cases, the fallacy of four terms is a special 
        case of <A href="http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/equiv.htm">equivocation</A>. 
        While the same <I>word</I> is used, the word has different 
        <I>meanings</I>, and hence the word is treated as two different terms. 
        Consider the following example:</DD></DL>
      <P>(ii) Only man is born free, and no women are men, therefore, no women 
      are born free.
</P><DL>
        <DD>The four terms are: man (in the sense of 'humanity'), man (in the 
        sense of 'male'), women and born free.</DD></DL></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><B>Proof:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><UL>Identify the four terms and where necessary state the meaning of each 
      term. <BR /></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><B>References:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Raul%20Sapena/Escritorio/f/g/fbps/propaganda2/Stephen%20Downes%20%20Fallacy%20of%20the%20Four%20Terms.htm"><I>Copi and Cohen: 206<BR /></I></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1FAA4982-6909-418C-BB4D-846A9FF116AF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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