[HN Gopher] Politician's Syllogism
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       Politician's Syllogism
        
       Author : sturza
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2021-01-01 18:57 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | thazework wrote:
       | And when that something doesn't work just deploy the 5 standard
       | excuses.
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       | https://youtu.be/6Y4PEqvk0Jg
        
       | liquidify wrote:
       | Sounds like something a lot of people do in normal conversation.
        
       | nerdponx wrote:
       | There is another related syllogism that I don't have a name for:
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       | 1. We tried X as a solution for Y.
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       | 2. X didn't work, because we didn't implement it properly or we
       | didn't understand how to implement it properly or some unrelated
       | situation caused it to not work properly.
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       | 3. Therefore X and anything that even kind of resembles X is no
       | longer an acceptable solution for Y.
        
         | hackeraccount wrote:
         | That's pretty much empiricism.
        
       | yrimaxi wrote:
       | How about the democracy syllogism:
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       | 1. We will pick a handful of people that you may choose from
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       | 2. You pick one of them (because there were no other choices)
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       | 3. Therefore you freely chose that person and are solely
       | responsible for what that person does
        
         | acheron wrote:
         | If they didn't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might get
         | in.
         | 
         | https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very...
        
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