The Importance of a Syllogism

The great failing of a syllogism is the most interesting part of it are the terms themselves and whether they're true or not. And he's claiming that his method is going to get us to that. So in some ways it's inverting the learning of the scholastics by saying, okay, well, all that syllogism stuff is fine. But what I need to get to is why those things that are the terms are actually true or not? And my method is goingto help me get there. Why you're bringing up rule four, there is a need of a method for finding out the truth, which I actually like better than the ants' comb. We need