Re: [algogeeks] Re: Syllogism

2011-08-22 Thread tanuj chawla
conclusion is not true... may be all the girls are beautiful.. On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Rahul raikra...@gmail.com wrote: http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/syll_prob.html Rahul On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dave dave_and_da...@juno.com wrote: @Geek_one: In fact, the

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Syllogism

2011-08-22 Thread Rohit Srivastava
no some girls may not be beautiful or all of them may be beautiful based on your premise the conclusion is incorrect since you havent spoken about the rest of the girls so you dont know nething about them On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Apoorve Mohan apoorvemo...@gmail.comwrote: U cannot say

[algogeeks] Re: Syllogism

2011-08-20 Thread Dave
@Geek_one: In fact, the statement All girls are beautiful does not imply that Some girls are beautiful unless we know that the set of girls is non-empty. For the statement All girls are beautiful is true if there are no girls. But Some girls are beautiful asserts the existence of at least one girl