Jerry R., List: What determines whether CP 5.189 is or is not a syllogism? >
What does this question have to do with the thread topic? > Is it predicated in the mind of the commens? That is, in B? > B is not "the mind of the commens," it is--per EP 2.441, as quoted below--the "circumstances of [C's] occurrence"; i.e., the major premiss (Rule) of a valid deductive syllogism in which "the credible conjecture" (A) is the minor premiss (Case), and "the surprising fact" (C) is the conclusion (Result) that is "necessarily consequent upon" those two premisses. Every inquiry whatsoever takes its rise in the observation, in one or another of the three Universes, of some surprising phenomenon ... The inquiry begins with pondering these phenomena in all their aspects, in the search of some point of view whence the wonder shall be resolved. At length a conjecture arises that furnishes a possible Explanation, by which I mean a syllogism exhibiting the surprising fact as necessarily consequent upon the circumstances of its occurrence together with the truth of the credible conjecture, as premisses. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt <http://www.linkedin.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt> - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt
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