 | Alfred Smee - Language and languages - 1851 - 138 pages
...quoted by Professor De Morgan, which is a good example of a transparent quibble of this character. " A servant who was roasting a stork for his master, was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon table, the master desired... | |
 | Alfred Smee - Psychology - 1875 - 298 pages
...quoted by Professor De Morgan, which is a good example of a transparent quibble of this character. ' A servant who was roasting a stork for his master, was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon table, the master desired... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Logic - 1880 - 344 pages
...to the statement that jests are usually palpable fallacies. Boccaccio tells the following story : " A servant who was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon the table, the master... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Logic - 1895 - 620 pages
...an • As, for instance, Mill (Logic, Bk. V. ch. vi. § 4), Port Royal Logic vPart III. ch. xix. \ 5, 7). The latter virtually treats both fallacies as if they were a dicto secnndum quid ad dictum simpliciter. ' Mr. de Morgan adduces one of Boccaccio's stories as affording... | |
 | James Welton - Logic - 1896 - 374 pages
...simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid is contained in the following story told by Boceacio in the Decameron : A servant who was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon the table, the master... | |
 | George Hugh Smith - Logic - 1901 - 298 pages
...give us the story of the stork, from Boccaccio, which, as quoted by Professor Davis, is as follows : " A servant who was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon the table the master... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Logic - 1905 - 624 pages
...an • As, for instance, Mill (Logic, Bk. V. ch. vi. § 4), Port Royal Logic (Part III. ch. xix. § 5, 7). The latter virtually treats both fallacies...was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon table, the master desired... | |
 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - Logic - 1911 - 544 pages
...example of arguing a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid is contained in the following story : " A servant who was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon the table, the master... | |
 | Henry Bradford Smith - Fallacies (Logic) - 1923 - 112 pages
...fallacy of accident. As a further example consider a tale from Boccaccio which is cited by De Morgan: "A servant who was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut -off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon the table, the master... | |
 | Holly Estil Cunningham - Logic - 1924 - 456 pages
...therefore by all people, we are guilty of the converse fallacy. From Boccaccio the following tale is told : "A servant who was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon the table, the master... | |
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A servant who was roasting a stork for his master was prevailed upon by his sweetheart to cut off a leg for her to eat. When the bird came upon table, the master desired to know what was become of the other leg. The man answered that storks had never... 
