[lit-ideas] Re: Text of bin Laden Tape
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:23:30 -0330
Robin, you may be too deep for me today. Enthymemes simply have unarticulated
("missing") premises which we tend to call assumptions. A logical
reconstruction of an argument would identify those and include them with the
usual suspects. Now get dressed and ask Alfred what's for supper.
B.W.
Wayne Mansion
Gotham City, NY
Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Holy enthymeme, Batman....
>
> wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote (alternating with LH below...)
>
> >>A premise is an assumption.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >True.
> >
> >
> >
> >>An Assumption in an argument is a premise.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >True. (Assuming that "assumption" is equivalent to "Assumption.") The
> converse is true since the relation is one of equivalence.
> >
> >
> >
> >>A premise in a syllogism is an assumption if the logic is valid.
> >>
> >>
> and more of the same.......
>
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