Daily Archives: November 30, 2015

An Enthymeme of P. J. O’Rourke

Mr. Nance,

I have a question about enthymemes. When the conclusion is assumed, how do we know which is the major premise and which is the minor premise? I fear there is a simple explanation that I may have missed but when I compare your example in Introductory Logic on page 221 with Exercise 31 #5, I can’t correlate how you knew which was the major premise and which was the minor premise, and therefore, how to write the assumed conclusion in proper form. Continue reading An Enthymeme of P. J. O’Rourke →

#17 – On Reading

Commonplaces

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Attributed to Mark Twain

“Outside of a dog a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx