wedrifid comments on By Which It May Be Judged - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2012 04:26AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 13 December 2012 10:44:20PM 1 point [-]

Yes, I'd like to avoid that sort of ..um.. proposal -- I can't quite see why one would call it a syllogism.

People would act as if it is a syllogism if they had one of the relevant (and not especially uncommon/unrealistic) premises. It would be a syllogism like...

  • Susie said a bad thing
  • People who say bad things should be set on fire
  • Therefore, Susie should be set on fire.