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by nomilk
147 days ago
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Only time encountering the word syllogism was a Norm Macdonald joke. Disappointingly, syllogism seems to have 3 definitions which mean slightly different things: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/syllogism I guess the commonality is that a syllogism typically contains deductive reasoning (i.e. from the general to the specific) |
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Universal claim: all cats are animals
Particular claim: Max is a cat
Singular claim: Max is an animal.