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Both premises are fallacious: we should not have weapons which cannot be used for our defence and we cannot influence other countries not to have nuclear weapons when we ourselves have them.
If, after both premises are diagrammed (the universal premise first, if both are not universal), the conclusion is also represented, the syllogism is valid; i.e., its conclusion follows necessarily from its premises.
And, when some valid syllogisms are formulated according to Aristotelian rules, paradoxes arise in which both premises are true and the conclusion is false.
It seems that there is no interpretation of 'possibility of motivation' for which it is plausible that both premises are true and avoid begging the question against externalism.
Finally, the premise subset {q, r} is "in between": together q and r are relevant (if both premises are left out, the conclusion is no longer derivable), but each of them separately can be left out (while keeping the conclusion derivable).
The fact that theists can enlist such unlikely allies does not mean the moral argument for God's existence is sound, but it does suggest that the argument is not obviously question-begging, since both premises are sometimes accepted by (different) non-believers.
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Both premises were raided by armed police on December 19, amid fears of a Christmas attack.
Henry's home and both premises were deluged, and by the time he realised the scale of the disaster, it was too late to evacuate.
In the cases where both premises were translated as equations of the form ay = 0, the elimination conclusion turned out to be 0 = 0, even though Aristotelian logic might demand a non-trivial conclusion.
Both types of premises are obviously open to challenge.
For example: In this valid expository syllogism, both of the premises are true according to Church teaching, but the conclusion is false.
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