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BPFK Section: Causation sumtcita

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:30:18 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > > .i la platos mrobi'o ni'i le du'u py remna
> > > Plato dies, which follows logically because he is human.
>
> A sorites is just as much a logical argument as a syllogism, no matter
> how many premises are omitted.

What's a sorites? I found this:

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extended syllogism (sorites)

When syllogisms (consisting of only categorical sentences) have more
than two premisses, they have more that a total of three terms. Such
syllogisms, when they are valid, can be demonstrated to be valid by
treating them as a linked series of valid categorical syllogisms. Such
extended syllogisms are also called sorites (so-ri'-tes). For example,
"Some A are B. All B are C. All C are D. All D are E. No E are F. So,
some A are not F."
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But nothing about omitting premises.

mu'o mi'e xorxes