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To: capitan_refugio
False syllogism.

Again, I'm happy to find that you've decided to expand your vocabulary. You should use greater precision in your word choice though. A syllogism is necessarily a logical construct containing, at minimum, two associated premises and a conclusion drawn upon them. Simply noting resemblence between two very similar statements is not a syllogism for the reason that it lacks a conclusion drawn upon the premise of that associations and another. Rather it is a descriptive observation and nothing more.

471 posted on 08/31/2004 5:50:49 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

I believe I gave you an example in an earlier post.


483 posted on 09/01/2004 12:01:42 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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