1. We live in a time of syllogisms: "It is what it is" and "It's all good, " for example. 我们生活在推理的时代:“它就是它”,“一切都很好”。
2. There are few facts of the "necessary" type that can form the basis of rhetorical syllogisms. 很少有能够形成修辞学三段论基础的“必要”类型的事实。
3. Undefined truth-values in the square of opposition cannot be used as a simple proposition in hypothetical syllogisms vaguely. 对当关系中的真假不定不能看作是一简单命题用于假言三段论。
4. Interestingly, syllogisms are easier to evaluate in the form "no flying things are penguins; all penguins are birds; so some birds are not fliers." 有意思的是我们觉得这样的三段论更容易判断:“没有飞行的物体会是企鹅,所有企鹅都是鸟类,所以有些鸟类不是飞行物。”
5. The manuscript begins by examining the basics of the deductive syllogisms and then turns to inductive generalizations and the uses and abuses of analogies. 本文首先探讨了逻辑三段论的基本知识,然后阐述归纳概括以及类比的使用和误用。