President George W. Bush and the religious fundamentalists are sylleptically syllogistically challenged.
As an example - God speaks to man or not, I am a man, so God speaks to me.
They can't conceive of the "or not". The reason they cannot accept the "or not" is because they lack intellectual confidence.
Heraclitus preceived that logos, reasoned thought, was born in the intense political debates in the early Greek city-states. For logos to occur, it requires that both sides of the discussion consider rational principles. It is impossible for rational and irrational individuals to come to a consensus.
An example of this problem is the discussion of the number of Iraqi citizens killed in the war. A Johns Hopkins University study came up with a figure in excess of 500,000 people. Without any research or evidence submitted to refute this claim, President Bush said that number is well beyond the mark.
The President, not being a student of syllogism or a Parmenidean, fails to understand "It is and it is impossible for it not to be."
President Bush matriculated from a classical university, therefore one would assume that he had a smidgen of classical learning. Hoy, that deductive argument, he has proved to be false. This failure in deductive reasoning is because President Bush never understood the difference between logos and muthos.
Of course, this is also the problem for at least 50% of the electorate of this country.
Aristotle Help America!
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