A Sample Argument

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 23, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 20.

A Sample Argument

A Sample Argument.—Here is a sample syllogistic argument from the Octographic Review that would make Whately turn in his grave if he could hear it: "(1) The law of the Ten Commandments was given in Horeb. See Deut. 5:1-22. (2) The law given in Horeb was called the law of Moses. See Mal. 4:4; Neh. 10:29; John 7:19. (3) Therefore the law of the Ten Commandments is the law of Moses."

The fallacy of the whole thing is shown by the simple question, Was the Decalogue the only law given at Horeb? There are eleven other "syllogisms" of the same sort.