BPFK Section: Causation sumtcita
enthymeme.
> 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.
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> What's a sorites? I found this:
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> extended syllogism (sorites)
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> 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.
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> mu'o mi'e xorxes
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