The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic:…

Leo Tolstoy
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The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all. ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (2005). The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Devil, Hesperus Press
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