Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Politicians_syllogism> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 41 of
41
with 100 triples per page.
- Politicians_syllogism abstract "The politician's syllogism, also known as the politician's logic or the politician's fallacy, is a logical fallacy of the form:We must do somethingThis is somethingTherefore, we must do this.The politician's fallacy was identified in a 1988 episode of the BBC television political sitcom Yes, Prime Minister titled "Power to the People", and has taken added life on the Internet. The syllogism, invented by fictional British civil servants, has been quoted in the real British Parliament. The syllogism has also been quoted in American political discussion.In Yes, Prime Minister, the term is discussed between two high-ranking civil servants who are concerned that the prime minister wants to implement a scheme to reform local government due to political opposition there. In this issue, as with many other issues humorously explored by the show, the civil servants believe that doing anything is worse than doing nothing because actions tend to undermine the dominance of the civil service. They identify the politician's logic as a fallacious categorical syllogism:All cats have four legsMy dog has four legsTherefore, my dog is a cat.This invalid form of argument, labeled AAA-2 among syllogisms, commits the fallacy of the undistributed middle: it says nothing about all things having four legs (the middle term) and thus the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises, even if the premises are true. The politician's syllogism similarly says nothing about all known "somethings" that could be done. As is common with fallacious undistributed middle arguments, it can also be seen as the fallacy of affirming the consequent when restated as an equivalent hypothetical syllogism:To improve things, things must changeWe are changing thingsTherefore, we are improving things.↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑".
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageID "21184895".
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageLength "3168".
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageOutDegree "17".
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageRevisionID "599793416".
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Affirming_the_consequent.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink BBC.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink British_Parliament.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Categorical_syllogism.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Category:Logical_fallacies.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Category:Political_terminology.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Category:Syllogism.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Category:Yes_Minister.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Fallacy_of_the_undistributed_middle.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Hypothetical_syllogism.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Informal_fallacy.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink List_of_fallacies.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Local_government.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Middle_term.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Power_to_the_People_(Yes,_Prime_Minister).
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Syllogism.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Validity.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Yes,_Prime_Minister.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLink Yes_Minister.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageWikiLinkText "Politician's syllogism".
- Politicians_syllogism hasPhotoCollection Politicians_syllogism.
- Politicians_syllogism wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Yes_Minister.
- Politicians_syllogism subject Category:Logical_fallacies.
- Politicians_syllogism subject Category:Political_terminology.
- Politicians_syllogism subject Category:Syllogism.
- Politicians_syllogism subject Category:Yes_Minister.
- Politicians_syllogism hypernym Fallacy.
- Politicians_syllogism comment "The politician's syllogism, also known as the politician's logic or the politician's fallacy, is a logical fallacy of the form:We must do somethingThis is somethingTherefore, we must do this.The politician's fallacy was identified in a 1988 episode of the BBC television political sitcom Yes, Prime Minister titled "Power to the People", and has taken added life on the Internet. The syllogism, invented by fictional British civil servants, has been quoted in the real British Parliament.".
- Politicians_syllogism label "Politician's syllogism".
- Politicians_syllogism sameAs Politikerens_syllogisme.
- Politicians_syllogism sameAs m.05c3rsx.
- Politicians_syllogism sameAs Q7225146.
- Politicians_syllogism sameAs Q7225146.
- Politicians_syllogism wasDerivedFrom Politicians_syllogismoldid=599793416.
- Politicians_syllogism isPrimaryTopicOf Politicians_syllogism.