Bold and presuming is he who fancies that his intellect can rectify errors of this magnitude and antiquity, and that the church of God has been permitted to wallow on in a most fatal idolatry for centuries, to be extricated by the pretending syllogisms of his one-sided and narrow philosophy!

As well might one expect to make a syllogism with a single premise."

[and I believe scarce any one makes syllogisms in reasoning within himself.]

Bacon rejects the syllogism on the ground that it fits one to overcome his opponent in disputation, but not to gain an active conquest over nature.

He took away the syllogism from Thomas Aquinas,not to throw contempt on metaphysical inquiry or dialectical reasoning, but to arrive by a better method at the knowledge of first principles; which once established, he allowed deductions to be drawn from them, leading to other truths as certainly as induction itself.

And so a theory which will be generally objected to as much too physical is transposed by a single syllogism to metaphysics.

B. Supply the reasons and complete the syllogism for each of the following: 1.

(f) So long as the logician regards his premisses not as hypotheses to be tested, but as established truths, he must condemn the Syllogism as a formal fallacy.