syllogism

I prefer job xThere is your syllogism, your "logical thing".

The responsibility for any act lies with the person who committed it. I think you can work out the rest of the syllogism from there.

Europe wasn't even capable of syllogism until they stole the knowledge back from the arabs.

As a statistical syllogism, it will have the following basic structure:[1] Most of what authority a has to say on subject matter S is correct. a says p about S.

No it isn't, your syllogism is a straw man. Hastings died under what are commonly known as "suspicious circumstances", which you omit in your rush to denigrate.

Meta: I come to HN not because it is a logical syllogism server but because it often has thoughtful, interesting comments.

One of the interesting things about lifehacking is that it seems to be one of those things where "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - kind of like the kid who takes Philosophy 101, learns a little bit about syllogisms and formal deductive fallacies like ad hominems, and goes around being obnoxious while never realizing that actually, most deductive fallacies are valid inductive arguments.