These are syllogisms, consisting of a thesis and a reason stated together in a single sentence, and consequences, an argument structurally similar to a syllogism but merely a logical outflow of an ...
So consider—with apologies to philosophy majors who might read this post—the following syllogism: College admissions officers are human beings. Human beings make mistakes. Ergo, college ...
The syllogism is simple: Trump is a racist; only racists support a racist; Americans who support Trump are racists. We can’t have a productive conversation that starts from the premise that ...
Kamala Harris, like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and almost every president in history, has had zero high-level officials from her Cabinet describe her as fascistic or otherwise ...
Ridiculous as this syllogism is (as we’ll see, it conveniently elides more consequential factors), it still puts the lie to the slanderous narrative that police are hunting down black men.