Syllogism

In my early 20s when I began taking philosophy more seriously, I came across these things called syllogisms. At the time I though I understood syllogisms, but as I learned more about philosophy in general it turned out my initial understanding was wrong. (Dunning-Kruger anyone?) As a budding theologian and…

Part of what prompted me to write this was Lewis Powell being very cheeky about how historical philosophers named their syllogisms. To be fair, I was cheeky first to contemporary philosophers, but they deserve every bit of it. So this impudence will not stand. The names of syllogisms are no…

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When you want to be reasonable in an unreasonable situation, you might say, “Let’s be logical about this.” When you want tell your friend, Jim, he’s about to make one of his famously poor decisions, you might say, “That would be illogical, captain.” …

In her essay on Practical Inference, Anscombe argued that practical reasoning is not formally distinct from theoretical reasoning. The argument is relatively straightforward — relative, that is, to the average Anscombe argument. Suppose we have the inference pattern: A→B B→C A Therefore: C. This looks like a piece of theoretical…