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It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. when we say, all men are mortal socrates is a man therefore socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, socrates is mortal.
-John Stuart Mill
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It Must Be Granted That In Every

John Stuart Mill
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. when we say, all men are mortal socrates is a man therefore socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, socrates is mortal.
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