Edited on Fri May-30-08 08:22 AM by Jim__
That's not a minor point. Syllogisms guarantee that the logic of the argument is correct because they follow one of a specific set of forms. Your arguments do not follow any of these forms. For instance, let's use argument 1, both premises and the conclusion have the same subject. That construct makes no sense in a syllogistic form.
You could try to re-word the arguments so that they are in syllogistic form, but there will still be problems. I'm not sure that your first argument can be properly put into a single syllogism.
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