Syllogism

reasoning. Inductive reason is looking for a pattern in information, and generalising based on that. Contrastingly, deductive reason takes a broad generalisation and comes to specific conclusions from that. An example of deductive reasoning are syllogisms, which are consisted of two premises and a conclusion. An example would be: All boys like football. Sam is a boy. Sam likes football. The above demonstrates how deductive reasoning can help us come to valid conclusions. However, it also…

amount of time pointing out the flaws in the clergymen’s claim and balancing his own criticism, King starts the letter by letting his fellow clergymen know that he believes their letter is worthy of a response. At the end, King wraps up his argument in a hopeful tone that the letter finds the clergymen “strong in faith” and his desire to meet the clergymen under better circumstances. King further establishes his ethos when he was accused of being an outsider coming in to stir up trouble. First,…

Philosophy offers a framework for assessing claims and ideas. In essence, philosophy is abstract and covers a variety of fields encompassing life. Logic is the structure of the relationship between concepts which one could argue applies to all divisions of the study of philosophy. But for a valid claim, possessing logic is not only necessary, for reasoning also plays a critical role. Logic and reasoning are important concepts that are parallel. According to the Meriam Webster Dictionary,…

new phone will perform just as his previous phones since he believes Samsung Company produces dependable phones. In some situations, the premises of an argument may not lead to the conclusion, but may be true. Such cases are referred to as invalid syllogism (Kahane and Cavender 36). An example of such an argument…

Taylor Swift is the best singer of all time. That is the truth. Now, wait a minute. Am I serious? Yes, I am. That is my belief, and I believe in it with a burning passion. Some people might share my belief. However, most people I know would think this statement is a complete joke. Why is that? I have learned from my many years of living on this planet called Earth that people have different beliefs that they consider as truth. But how do they get the truth? Students of all ages attend school to…

“The Death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy tells the story of the eponymous man’s life and death. After exploring the initial reactions to Ivan’s death by his colleagues and wife, the story traces Ivan’s life from a boy in school to a dying middle-aged man. The majority of the story recounts the last several months of Ivan’s life. As the story progresses, Ivan is shown realizing that his illness will lead to death. The last portion of the story describes his physical and mental anguish as he…

Judges Leslie Tiller and Simon Skinner serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, respectively. Each has an involved history with Minnesota’s governor, Joyce Cooper. In this paper, I will argue that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause bars Skinner, but not Tiller, from hearing two cases to which Cooper is a party: the Sierra Club case and the Cooper Corruption case. I address each of the two cases in parts I and…

Opponents generally begin with the false syllogism that marijuana is addictive: Narcotics are additive, marijuana is a narcotic, therefore, marijuana is additive. On paper, this may seem logical; however, a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse concluded that less than 9% of user of marijuana…

He explains that even if you don’t know all the facts, you can still be able to beat your opponent and recognize his fallacies. Heinrichs starts with syllogism, if chickens are birds, and chickens lay eggs, than all birds must lay eggs was interesting to see how inductive logic or deductive logic can be used to sway the audience in favor of the persuader. Inductive logic and deductive logic seem to be…

After his death his works fell out of use for a century. His works where revived again during the first century and over time they became the foundation of more than seven centuries of philosophy (Biography.com, web). Aristotle’s logic the syllogism lasted for two thousand years before it was overtaken by the rise of the modern propositional and predicated logic (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, web). His influence in regards to philosophy effected ideas from late antiquity all the way…