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Jul 9, 2021 · Alice is mortal. Therefore she's a man. Assume it to be true that all mortals are men (of course it isn't true in the real world but suppose there is such a world).
A syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός, syllogismos, 'conclusion, inference') is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.
“The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
the syllogism “Socrates is a man; all men are mortal; therefore Socrates is mortal” the conclusion is assumed in the assertion of the major premise: we cannot be assured of the mortality of all men, unless we are already certain of the mortality of every individual man: that if it be still
For Socrates, our bodies belong to the physical realm: They change, they’re imperfect, they die. Our souls, however, belong to the ideal realm: They are unchanging and immortal, surviving the death of the body. And although a close relationship exists between our souls and our bodies, they are radically different entities.
Whoever pronounces the words, All men are mortal, has affirmed that Socrates is mortal, though he may never have heard of Socrates; for since Socrates, whether known to be so or not, really is a man, he is included in the words, All men, and in every assertion of which they are the subject.
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A syllogism or argument is made up of a sequence of propositions (premises followed by a conclusion), such as "All animals are mortal; all men are animals; therefore all men are mortal." Propositions, in turn, are built up from terms -- for example, "animals", "mortals", "men".
