Quotes About Syllogism

#1. I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.

Claudia Cardinale

#2. All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

H.L. Mencken

#3. Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man ...

Edmund White

#4. Consider the famous syllogism "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal." So far, so good. But just because all men are mortal, it does not follow that all mortals are men, and it certainly does not follow that all men are Socrates.

Carol Tavris

#5. For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

#6. As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.

William Stanley Jevons

#7. All roses are flowers. Some flowers fade quickly. Therefore some roses fade quickly. A large majority of college students endorse this syllogism as valid. In fact the argument is flawed, because it is possible that there are no roses among the flowers that fade quickly.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.
Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think
Yours in distress,
Alan

Alan Turing

#9. The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

Walter J. Phillips

#10. Reality wasn't a syllogism like "Socrates is a man - all men are mortal - hence Socrates is mortal," but more like "Helga is a human being - all telephone booths have been vandalized - hence Helga must die." Or like: "Hitler is a human being - all Jews are animals - hence all Jews must die.

Harry Mulisch

#11. History gives us no clean, straight causal lines binding events and giving them clear order. History is a poem, not a syllogism.

Rod Dreher

#12. God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

Gore Vidal

#13. SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b) is Something, Therefore (b) Must Be Done.

Charles Stross

#15. Drop the mind that thinks in prose; revive another kind of mind that thinks in poetry Put aside all your expertise in syllogism; let songs be your way of life. Move from intellect to intuition, from the head to the heart, because the heart is closer to the mysteries.

Osho

#16. A Classical style ... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

James Joyce

#17. What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Andre Gide

#18. 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

#19. The Bell Curve might have been called Why Intelligence Matters, explaining the connection of intelligence to life outcomes; this book completes the syllogism.

Michael Levin

#20. Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

H.L. Mencken

#21. Dividing one number by another is mere computation ; knowing what to divide by what is mathematics.

Jordan Ellenberg

#22. A revival is not a miracle," Finney declared.

Michael S. Horton

#23. I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.

Millicent Ashby

#24. Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

Emil M. Cioran

#25. Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

David Simon

#26. You almost died, you little shit.

Thea Harrison

#27. It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.

Carson McCullers

#28. When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.

Eric Cantona