SYLLOGISM CHECKER
E follow by logic?
Two starting points and one conclusion. Dis page dey answer one question — di conclusion follow by logic? — and e dey show why for di circles. Whether di starting points true na di oda half, and e dey come right afta.
Try one:
The two linkssay each as strongly as you can defend, and no more — ⇄ flips its direction
Di oda half: how to check whether di starting points true
Dis page dey answer one question — di conclusion follow by logic? E no dey tok anytin about whether
di starting points true, and di trick wey pipo dey use pass for argument na perfect logic on top
premise wey nobodi check. Machine no fit do dat half, so dis na di checklist. Ask am of evri
side di same way, your own side inside.
1 · Find di premise wey carry di load
Wetin di whole argument really hang on?
- Which claim, if e fall, go carry di conclusion fall with am?
- Wetin dem present as clear, but for true pipo dey argue am?
- Wetin I go don already believe make dis one make sense?
- Which step from di reasons to di conclusion nobodi tok?
2 · If na fact wey pesin fit check
Numbers, documents, events — open dem.
- Which source confirm am, and I fit open dat source myself?
- Di source tok exactly dat one, or sometin wey dem change for road?
- Wetin go prove say dis claim no true?
- If source no dey, why source no dey?
3 · If na value judgement
Nobodi go settle value for you; dis questions just dey
show wetin dey hide.
- Na whose value, and evribodi wey dey here accept am as given?
- I go use di same judgement for di oda side?
- Na fact dem dress up as value, or value dem dress up as fact?
- Wetin pesin wey no gree — and wey no be bad pesin — go tok?
4 · If na prediction, or claim about wetin pesin intend
Nobodi fit check any of dem now. Shine your eye wen dem
tok any of dem as fact.
- How anybodi go take know wetin anoda pesin intend — wia di evidence dey, instead of di feeling?
- Dem dey treat sometin wey nobodi fit prove like say e don already settle?
- Wetin go confirm or reject dis prediction, and by wen?
- Na fear dey stand for di place of evidence?
5 · Two questions for evri argument, no exception
- Wetin go convince you say you wrong? If notin fit, dis na faith, no be argument.
- I fit put di same question to di side wey I gree with?
For dialogue, na for dis di panel dey: na di pipo wey sabi di situation dey decide whether starting point true,
no be dis page and no be model.