(August 21, 2010 at 6:12 pm)Entropist Wrote: Repeatedly in life, I have witnessed that in order to quarantine oneself from doubt, the true believer must seal himself within a syllogistic bubble.
Don't we all? (rely on the syllogism) The difference is the skeptic does not infer truth from logic,he merely implies.
I'ts been argued that the syllogism is the basis of Western philosophical thought. It's certainly the most common form of argument to be seen in daily life in the form of a few common logical fallacies.EG: argument from ignorance, argument by consensus, argument from authority and no true Scotsman.