syllogism

logic

ancient greek philosophy

is a logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

is flawed. It could just as easily imply that: All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are socrates.

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. Woody Allen

is a logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption, and an inconsequent

syllogism n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption, and an inconsequent.

is not a description of man's way of reasoning; it merely describes man's way of dressing up his reasoning for the persuasion of another mind.

Let us summarize our disagreement. We are bothered, at the outset, with his insistence on logic. He thinks the syllogism a description of man's way of reasoning, whereas it merely describes man's way of dressing up his reasoning for the persuasion of another mind;

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syllogism