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[/quote] The major premise there is that all men are mortal. Don't be fooled by the ordering of the sentences, sort them by specificity. Are you certain it's a triple A syllogism? I'm pretty sure it only has one A and two Is We're not doing your homework here are we? I feel like at this time of year...

So here is your archetypal syllogism. Socrates is a man All men are mortal Therefore Socrates is mortal This is an AAA:1 syllogism which can also be stated like this. All S are M All M are P Therefore all S are P When I put an "all" in front of Socrates the major premise it no longer makes...