The fifth source exercise has the pattern:
Some Muslims shave their beards.
No beard-shaver is pleasing to God.
Therefore some Muslims are not pleasing to God.
The middle term is beard-shaver, and the inference has a particular negative conclusion. This teaches the logical form of the source’s premise; it does not establish that premise as an independent religious fact.
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Source exercise 5: a universal negative
Kinds of Argument: Syllogism, Premises, Conclusion and Three Terms
The fifth source exercise has the pattern:
Some Muslims shave their beards.
No beard-shaver is pleasing to God.
Therefore some Muslims are not pleasing to God.
The middle term is beard-shaver, and the inference has a particular negative conclusion. This teaches the logical form of the source’s premise; it does not establish that premise as an independent religious fact.