[lit-ideas] Re: Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful Boy

  • From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:59:36 -0230

Interesting enthymeme. Missing premise:

P1: All events in life are experienced.

Add to: 

P2: Death is not experienced.

C: Therefore, death is not an event in life.

Reconstructing logical form:

All a are b
No c are b
Therefore, no c are a. 

Valid. And yet Socrates tells us that life is but the learning of how to die. Go
figure.


Walter O
soundness checking

Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:

> Donal wrote
> 
> This is not a self-contradiction as, in c., "dying" may denote "in a 
> living state but at a point close to death", which entails a. as in 
> "living" rather than contradicts it. [Btw, W said afair that "Death is 
> not an event in life"...
> 
> 6.4311 Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death...
> 
> Robert Paul,
> fact checking
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