Syllogistic Argument Quotes & Sayings

LOVE should be the very heart of FAMILY life. — Thomas S. Monson

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance). — Stephen Jay Gould

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror. — Lysander Spooner

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there. — Stewart Rahr

Love is the social equivalent of gravity. — Morris Berman

The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness. — Enrique Penalosa

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. — Immanuel Kant

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde. — Matthew Shipp

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities. — Jean De La Bruyere

Yeah, we'll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It'll be like this today - losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse." He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. "But, by God, we'll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch! — Philip K. Dick

The superiority ... enjoyed by nations that have ... perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a ... formidable obstacle. — Alexander Hamilton

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory. — M. Stanton Evans

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling. — Fred Durst

It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal. — John Stuart Mill