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Originally Posted by ficbot
I forget the name for it, but there a word for those logic statements that don't really follow. You know, like 'candy is pink, girls like candy, therefore girls like pink.'
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You can call it a flawed syllogism, although I'm convinced there's a snappier single-word term for it (I may well be mistakenly thinking of sollecism).
A nice example can be taken from Yes, Prime Minister. Known as the Politicians' Syllogism, it goes something like this:
We must do something.
This is something.
Therefore we must do this.
On another note, I really hate the size and shape of 'trade' paperback format. If I've only got a book in print format, and it's 'Penguin classic' size, I'll very happily read it. The abominations that are 50% bigger and invariably have neon-covers that look like a box of washing powder, not so much. The advantages of ebooks over these vile objects are even more self-evident.