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tux3 on Nov 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Strange Metals: Where electricity may flow without...

Classic syllogistic fallacy, too!

    All electric currents transport charges
    Students transport charges
    Therefore, students are electric currents

Aristotélēs wouldn't approve of this one.

mydogcanpurr on Nov 28, 2023 [–]

No, it’s valid reasoning.

  All things that transport charges are electric currents.
  Students transport charges.
  Therefore, students are electric currents.

It could be that we disagree on what it means to define something.

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