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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
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- Subject: Re: Syllogism
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.142106.23708@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 14:21:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.071704.23595@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes:
- >A longtime favorite of mine:
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- >-----
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- >All syllogisms have three parts.
- >
- >Therefore this is not a syllogism.
- >
- >-----
- >
- True but misleading, becuase a lot of people think that a syllogism is the
- same thing as a vaild argument (that's "valid" not "veiled", and vice versa,
- which is not true
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