Moreover (see below), Aristotle expends great efforts to argue that every valid argument, in a broad sense, can be "reduced" to an argument, or series of arguments, in something like one of the forms traditionally called a syllogism.
I have to admit it is hard to believe that we are reduced to making arguments on the necessity of regulation.
Not everything in the world can be reduced to an argument about trade.Bernard MulliganProvidence, Rhode IslandNuclear nationsSIR – You refer to India's hope of becoming a "fully legitimate nuclear power, alongside the existing five" ("Now we are six", July 23rd).
Although the global economy is clearly a powerful driver involved with whatever globalization is, this does not mean that everything can be reduced to economic argument.
The first victor, Steve Brookstein, has been reduced to starting petty arguments on Twitter, Shayne Ward recently took a detour into the West End, and even recent albums by the more talented ones (Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke) have been released to poor sales and mixed reviews.
On health care, Reagan's party has now been reduced to making the argument that he mocked back in 1961 — that Obama and the Democrats want to deny medical care to seniors.
During an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, Jeffrey Lord, a Trump surrogate, was reduced to making the argument that ordinary Americans may have seen things differently than the pundits did.
Hodgson and England must move with the times otherwise the idea of how they will fare at the 2018 World Cup might even be reduced to a redundant argument.
Lee added that he was "saddened" that the storyline had been reduced to a "facile argument about six missing seconds of screen time and that the bulk of commentators, both conservative and liberal, are making pronouncements on story material they know nothing of".
Trump has been pushing the standard GOP narrative that voter fraud is common and needs to be addressed with voter-ID laws, but in the ad the whole argument gets reduced to a two-word blanket statement.
