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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They can do a valid syllogism, we should trust them on this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

this isn’t necessarily a valid syllogism depending on how you interpret the first premise you could call it:

All stupid ideas are had by liberals

but it could also be

Some stupid ideas are had by liberals

and we don’t know which OP meant. if the latter, an I-A-A syllogism is invalid.

because the language of the first premise is ambiguous, it cannot be definitely stated that the argument posed by anon is valid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, thanks for correcting that!