This syllogism gave America Prohibition, mandatory-minimum sentences, the sentencing disparity between convictions for crack and powder cocaine, and that great guarantee of everyone's security, shoe removal at airports.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

This, of course, is designed to reinforce their syllogism.

BBC: Trident politics

Those defences, like Mr Bloomberg's, express a familiar syllogism.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Then we had to endure endless election cycle ads about Solyndra, and the attempted syllogism that the failure of this one company bespoke the death of an industry and end of a President.

FORBES: Stop Naysaying The Solar Industry And Get On The Bus!

All the same, the Tories' syllogism is flawed.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot