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    1 year ago

    this isn’t necessarily a valid syllogism depending on how you interpret the first premise you could call it:

    All stupid ideas are had by liberals

    but it could also be

    Some stupid ideas are had by liberals

    and we don’t know which OP meant. if the latter, an I-A-A syllogism is invalid.

    because the language of the first premise is ambiguous, it cannot be definitely stated that the argument posed by anon is valid