The court simply assumes it away with the syllogistic reasoning that Alabama’s statutory law specifies that human life includes “unborn” life.

Ideally, it should be possible to formulate every scientific argument in syllogistic terms, a syllogism being, for example: All men are mortal.

On October 22, 1962, the syllogistic nature of this sentence seemed to impress me as much as the possibility it discussed.

He once told an interviewer, with syllogistic bluntness, “If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.”

Try having a conversation with a liberal progressive about GMOs—genetically modified organisms—in which the words “Monsanto” and “profit” are not dropped like syllogistic bombs.