Legal Opinion
Gonzalez v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided October 31, 2013No. Case No. 8:12-cv-2549-T-23EAJPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
STEVEN D. MERRYDAY, District Judge.
An error in a syllogism, otherwise a venerable tool of logic, can assume many forms. In some forms, the faulty syllogism offends the reader immediately, even before the reader identifies precisely the flaw in a premise, because the reader instantly recognizes the flaw in the conclusion. For example:(1)Nothing is better than hot coffee on a cold morning.(2) Lukewarm coffee is better than nothing on a cold morning. Therefore:(3) Lukewarm coffee is better than hot coffee on a cold morning.
Why is this syllogism producing an obviously erroneous conclusion?…
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- Severin Hegel v. The First Liberty Insurance CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2015