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Yeah, like I was saying this sounds more like the philosophy professors I've had: I wonder if some of the problem is the Christian students assume if the professor is arguing with them, it means he wants the student to be quiet and just accept his authority, because that's the way they're used...

I only saw the preview, and the bit that stuck with me is where the philosophy professor says, "I would like to bypass senseless debate altogether and jump to the conclusion ... " Because I took some philosophy courses, and none of the profs would have seen that as a senseless debate. A...

The typical form of a syllogism is All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore Socrates is mortal. If you think of the "are" and "is" verbs as the centre for each premise, see that "man" is on the right in one premise and on the left in the other premise. So you can think of it as it...

I think a big problem is the definition of "exists" is hard to pin down when you're talking about the "non-physical," whatever that is. If we're talking about something physical like a rock, it's easy for us to agree what it means for that to exist.

Is the first problem that you say distributed middle instead of undistributed middle, or is this some other fallacy with a confusingly similar name?

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