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A paper which considers the difference between a syllogism and an essay, and the way in which greater depth of meaning and ambiguity can be explored in the latter. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the two forms, and the way in which the boundaries of the syllogism may be redefined through the process. According to Boeree (1999), from an epistemological point of view
Aristotle cannot be considered as a pure rationalist despite his contribution to the development of logic and the influence he had on later thinkers: his rationalism was combined with what
Boeree refers to as the "truth of the senses". Rationalism concentrates on a priori truths, or those which are necessary
and self-evident and which must be accepted before one can start considering the world of sensory impressions. Boeree offers mathematics as an example: "one plus one equals two" is self-evident,
since one does not have to constantly add up endless examples to prove it; in fact, it would be impossible to count if one did not accept "one plus one
is true" as an a priori truth. Boeree also makes the point that what is "self evident" to one person
is not necessarily "self evident" to the next. Stating that the hen is larger than the egg would be self evident, for example, but stating that god exists would not
be. He comments that the most familiar context in which we know the word, in the Declaration of Independence, is in fact an example of a rhetorical device, and not
an a priori truth at all. The syllogism, which uses the principle of a priori truth, is an essential element in western philosophical thought, which is based on Aristotelian logic.
The essay, however, is a different form. To essay means, literally, to try: as Hartle (2006) points out, the essay "embraces
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