No premisses require closer scrutiny than those which lead to the constantly echoed conclusion, "He must have known," or "He must have read."

This too is my conclusion, but (if I do not delude myself) from more evident, though not perhaps more certain, premisses.

"I too," he says, "once made this very remark to Rufus when he rebuked me for not discovering the suppressed premiss in some syllogism.

But I do not at all care to press this inference; it is no more secure than the premiss upon which it is founded.

For then the question is merely begged in the minor premiss.

[Footnote 9: A Sorites, in Logic,from [Greek: sôrós], a heapis a pile of syllogisms so compacted that the conclusion of one serves as a premiss to the next.

For the premiss on account of which we intend to demand that that point which is doubtful shall be conceded to us, ought not to be doubtful itself.

But the first premiss is certainly the case; therefore so must the consequent be.

If you mean to assert that the difference between a live animal and a dead animal, i.e., between animate and sensitive matter, and the same matter when it becomes inanimate and insensitive, is a mere rearrangement of the same atoms, your premiss is intelligible.

But this premiss is advanced to prove that it is of no "consequence" to kill an animal.

The premiss, which you use, involves the fallacy called "proving too much.

" "Still, sir," said Manuel, "inasmuch as there is one thing only which all death's ravishings have never taken from life, and that thing is the Misery of earth" "Your premiss is indisputable, but what do you deduce from this?" Manuel smiled slowly and sleepily.

There is a premiss, and there is a conclusion, but there is a total want of connection between the two.

It requires trust to commit oneself to the conclusion of any reasoning, however strong, when such as this is the conclusion: to put enough dependence and reliance upon any premisses, to accept upon the strength of them so immense a result.

Faith, when for convenience' sake we do distinguish it from reason, is not distinguished from reason by the want of premisses, but by the nature of the conclusions.

We infer, we go upon reasons, we use premisses in either case.

The premisses of faith are not so palpable as those of ordinary reason, but they are as real and solid premisses all the same.

The premisses of faith are not so palpable as those of ordinary reason, but they are as real and solid premisses all the same.

The inward energy of the reason has to be evoked, when she can no longer lean upon the outward prop of custom, but is thrown back upon herself and the intrinsic force of her premisses.

Which reason, not leaning upon custom, is faith; she obtains the latter name when she depends entirely upon her own insight into certain grounds, premisses, and evidences, and follows it though it leads to transcendent, unparalleled, and supernatural conclusions....

No premisses, no arguments therefore, can so accommodate this truth to us as not to leave the belief in it an act of mental ascent and trust, of faith as distinguished from sight.

The irreconcilability of the two was at once removed, when we had read and mastered the second and third chapters of the Second Book of the 'System of Logic;' in which Mr Mill explains the functions and value of the Syllogism, and the real import of its major premiss.

It subordinates syllogism to induction, the technical to the real; it divests the major premiss of its illusory pretence to be itself the proving authority, or even any real and essential part of the proofand acknowledges it merely as a valuable precautionary test and security for avoiding mistake in the process of proving.

[Footnote 9: A Sorites, in Logic,from [Greek: sôrós], a heapis a pile of syllogisms so compacted that the conclusion of one serves as a premiss to the next.

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