Categorical syllogisms are generated from a user-customisable word bank. The fallacies the syllogism has committed — if any — are displayed. For each syllogism, a Venn diagram is also created.
- This project is written in Kotlin, and uses Java 12 for the jar file runtime environment.
- You can install Java 12 or newer here and then follow the steps.
- Download the CategoricalSyllogism.jar file to your computer.
- You can then run the application by running the jar file.
Syllogisms contain three sentences: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. Each sentence contains two words from the word bank. However, one word from the major premise and minor premise always repeats, and the conclusion repeats from the premises. Thus, there are three unique words per syllogism.
Each syllogism can be described by a code (ie: AAA-1). The character at position one describes the major sentence. The character at position two describes the minor sentence. The character at position three describes the conclusion sentence. The number at position four describes the order of the repeated word in the syllogisms.
'A' = "All x are y"
'E' = "No x are y"
'I' = "Some x are y"
'O' = "Some x are not y"
'1' = First word of the major sentence and second word from the minor sentence repeat.
'2' = Second word of the major sentence and second word from the minor sentence repeat.
'3' = First word of the major sentence and first word from the minor sentence repeat.
'4' = Second word of the major sentence and first word from the minor sentence repeat.
