Comments on: On words http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/20/on-words/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:49:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/20/on-words/comment-page-1/#comment-23773 Ymarsakar Wed, 21 May 2008 13:02:45 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2943#comment-23773 It's a house built of cards. Very geometric and well laid out, but structurally weak at the bottom as you pile more weight on top. It’s a house built of cards. Very geometric and well laid out, but structurally weak at the bottom as you pile more weight on top.

]]> By: benning http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/20/on-words/comment-page-1/#comment-23767 benning Wed, 21 May 2008 10:22:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2943#comment-23767 It's a silly sentence. If you have to go to a dictionary to catch what one word means, then maybe you're learning. But if you have to check three words in the same sentence ... sheesh! Poor English. Muddled thinking. syllogism = "deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises" polysyllogism = "an argument made up of a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each being a premise of the one following, until the last one. " episyllogism = "a syllogism one of the premises of which is the conclusion of a preceding syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the first one. " I <i>still</i> have no idea what that sentence really means. If the writer means to say the argument is logically laid out but based on a flawed premise, why not say so? Who's he trying to impress? Horrid stuff. It’s a silly sentence. If you have to go to a dictionary to catch what one word means, then maybe you’re learning. But if you have to check three words in the same sentence … sheesh! Poor English. Muddled thinking.

syllogism = “deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises”

polysyllogism = “an argument made up of a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each being a premise of the one following, until the last one. ”

episyllogism = “a syllogism one of the premises of which is the conclusion of a preceding syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the first one. ”

I still have no idea what that sentence really means. If the writer means to say the argument is logically laid out but based on a flawed premise, why not say so? Who’s he trying to impress? Horrid stuff.

]]> By: highlander http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/05/20/on-words/comment-page-1/#comment-23757 highlander Wed, 21 May 2008 04:04:06 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=2943#comment-23757 Exactly -- that's why I never would have made it as a lawyer. I'm impressed that you can wade through stuff like that and still retain your sanity. Exactly — that’s why I never would have made it as a lawyer.

I’m impressed that you can wade through stuff like that and still retain your sanity.

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