 | Rhetoric, part 1 (97) |  |
 Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:53 am |
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| Howard Shepherd and Dave Shepherd explore rhetoric and dialectic, citing examples from Plato, Aristotle, Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore. |
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| A pedant writes | |
| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:47 am |
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Sorry chaps, but
| Quote: | All podcasts can be downloaded to an MP3 player
I have an MP3 player
So I can download a podcast
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is most definitely *not* a syllogism...
You are 'affirming the consequent' here - owning an MP3 player is not a sufficient condition for downloading a podcast (you would need an internet connection, technical skills etc as well)
This is equivalent to saying
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All men are mortal
Socrates is mortal
Therefore Socrates is a man |
(whereas Socrates could be a woman, a parrot, a koala or any of countless other mortal things) |
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