Syllogisms

In traditional logic, a syllogism is an inference in which one proposition (the conclusion) follows of necessity from two others (known as premises). Syllogisms consist of three things: major, minor (the premises) and conclusio, which follows logically from the major and the minor. A major is a general principle. A minor is a specific statement. Logically, the conclusio follows from applying the major to the minor.

Memorable Syllogisms:

1. • Imagine a piece of Swiss cheese, full of holes. The MORE cheese you have, the MORE holes. Each hole occupies a space in what could have been cheese. So, the more holes, the less cheese. The more the cheese, the more the holes, and the more the holes, the less the cheese. Therefore, the MORE the cheese…… the LESS the cheese.

2. • God is Love.
Love is blind.
Stevie Wonder is blind.
Then…
Stevie Wonder is God!

3. • It is said that I am Nobody.
Nobody is perfect.
Therefore I am perfect.
But God is perfect.
Therefore I am God.
If Stevie Wonder is God, I am Stevie Wonder!
My God!!! I am blind!!!

4. • These days workers have no time for anything.
Vagrants have all the time in the world.
Time is Money.
Therefore…
The vagrants have more money than the workers.

5. • When we drink, we are drunk.
When we are drunk we sleep.
When we are asleep we don’t commit sins.
If we don’t commit sins we go to Heaven.
Therefore…
We have to drink to go to Heaven.