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Alistair <alistair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On 28 Mar, 22:06, docdw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> 'How many of you think that all men are mortal?' (hands up)
>> 'How many of you think that Socrates is a man?' (hands up)
>> 'How many of you think that Socrates is mortal?' 'Uh..... maybe I was
>> wrong when I said I thought all men are mortal... or maybe Socrates
isn't
>> a man now.'
>
>Tsk! Tsk! Even you should know better than to ask these questions.
>
>Men ARE mortal.
>Socrates WAS a man.
>Socrates has been proven to be mortal (for most peoples' value of
>PROVEN).
Mr Maclean, might it be possible that the questions I posed referred to a
Socrates who is still alive today? The name is not unique, last I looked.
[snip]
>> (note - Aristotle, Prior Analytics, Book I, Part 1, paragraph 4,
sentence
>> 1: 'A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated,
>> something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their
being
>> so. I mean by the last phrase that they produce the consequence, and by
>> this, that no further term is required from without in order to make
the
>> consequence necessary.'
-http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.mb.txt)
>
>Have you been a student of philosophy or should I be enquiring as to
>how you can afford the time to research all of your answers?
I have read a few things on the backs of several cereal-boxes here and
there, Mr Maclean... no, wait, Prior Analytics would be on the front, on
the back one should find Posterior Analytics. This wonderful web-thingie
allows for rapid research and citing, yes... but the old form of 'Author,
Title, (publisher, edition, printing), book, chapter, section, paragraph,
sentence, word' for citing was one I learned long before it existed.
DD
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