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politician's syllogism

logical fallacy that is often used to illustrate how politicians can be tempted to initiate measures or reform for the sake of the reform and actions themselves, regardless of whether the reform has any kind of substance
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politician's syllogism

Summary

politician's syllogism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • politician is named after politician's syllogism[2].
  • politician's syllogism's subclass of is recorded as paralogism[3].
  • politician's syllogism's subclass of is recorded as fallacy of the undistributed middle[4].
  • politician's syllogism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05c3rsx[5].

Why It Matters

politician's syllogism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[6]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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