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Annie? I said. Though a syllogism framed according to any of these formulæ is a valid argument, all correct ratiocination admits of being stated in syllogisms of the first figure alone. The rules for throwing an argument in any of the other figures into the first figure, are called rules for thereduction of syllogisms. It is done by the conversion of one or other, or both, of the premises. Thus an argument in the first mood of the second figure, as— Fine, asshole, she said. Just go fuck yourself, okay? 286 I dont know how Dr. Ernst knew at once that malaria was what Annie had. But upon questioning her further, it became apparent that not only did shehave it, she alsoknew she had it. Rob held his left hand on the collar, his right hand over the animals shoulder. He looked up to Dr. Dixon and Harvey Richmond and said, Now please don’t make any exclamations of surprise, or act as though there’s anything out of order, just carry on, please, with an ordinary conversation. The former of these requisites is that to which our attention will be exclusively directed in the present chapter. He took the passport and thumbed through the pages. There was no question that this was the passport of Linda Carroll of Falthaven, and that it had not been tampered with. The photograph in the front of the passport was undoubtedly that of the woman who was standing in front of him and could not, by any possibility, have been the photograph of the woman whom he had known as Linda Carroll. What doyou think? She turned to look at me. Raised her eyes to me. Eyes as black as chimney soot. And yet, when a coincidence can not be deduced from known laws, nor proved by experiment to be itself a case of causation, the frequency of its occurrence is the only evidence from which we can infer that it is the result of a law. Not, however, its absolute frequency. The question is not whether the coincidence occurs often or seldom, in the ordinary sense of those terms; but whether it occurs more often than chance will account for; more often than might rationally be expected if the coincidence were casual. We have to decide, therefore, what degree of frequency in a coincidence chance will account for; and to this there can be no general answer. We can only state the principle by which the answer must be determined; the answer itself will be different in every different case. scatter mellow wanting History of Scientific Ideas, ii., 111-113. Supra,p. 93. One reason obviously presents itself why what is called a coincidence, should be oftener asserted falsely than an ordinary combination. It excites wonder. It gratifies the love of the marvelous. The motives, therefore, to falsehood, one of the most frequent of which is the desire to astonish, operate more strongly in favor of this kind of assertion than of the other kind. Thus far there is evidently more reason for discrediting an alleged coincidence, than a statement in itself not more probable, but which if made would not be thought remarkable. There are cases, however, in which the presumption on this ground would be the other way. There are some witnesses who, the more extraordinary an occurrence might appear, would be the more anxious to verify it by the utmost carefulness of observation before they would venture to believe it, and still more before they would assert it to others. She throws the broken bottle into the scraggly bushes lining the dusty road, and thinks at first she should go back to her tiny room over the butcher shop, but wouldnt those roughs in the bar know where she lives? Or wouldn’t they ask the proprietor of the bar where she lives, everyoneknows she lives right over the butcher shop! So she heads up the mountain instead. It is close to midnight on a Friday night on a lonely Sicilian road. My sister has no specific plan in mind exceptnot to go back to the dubious safety of her room over the butcher shop. At first, she’s not sure she’s actually seeing figures in the road ahead of her. She stops, peers into the darkness. Should he go back in and wait for it to move away? That would be the sensible thing. But poor Kaitlynn was desperate, and in truth he was now very concerned about Jack, too. He glanced warily at the sky, then ducking his head, he sprinted across to their Citroën. He gave the drivers door a hard yank. § 3. Among Fallacies of Ratiocination are to be ranked, in the first place, all the cases of vicious syllogism laid down in the books. These generally resolve themselves into having more than three terms to the syllogism, either avowedly, or in the covert mode of an undistributed middle term, or anillicit process of one of the two extremes. It is not, indeed, very easy fully to convict an argument of falling under any one of these vicious cases in particular; for the reason already more than once referred to, that the premises are seldom formally set out: if they were, the fallacy would impose upon nobody; and while they are not, it is almost always to a certain degree optional in what manner the suppressed link shall be filled up. The rules of the syllogism are rules for compelling a person to be aware of the whole of what he must undertake to defend if he persists in maintaining his conclusion. Hehas it almost always in his power to make his syllogism good by introducing a false premise; and hence it is scarcely ever possible decidedly to affirm that any argument involves a bad syllogism: but this detracts nothing from the value of the syllogistic rules, since it is by them that a reasoner is compelled distinctly to make his election what premises he is prepared to maintain. The election made, there is generally so little difficulty in seeing whether the conclusion follows from the premises set out, that we might without much logical impropriety have merged this fourth class of fallacies in the fifth, or Fallacies of Confusion. Okey, kid! Shes the motherly type, I guess. She’s old enough to be yours. scatter mellow wanting.