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Tom Verenna asked me to express one of my arguments in the form of a syllogism, and Tom has blogged his response to my attempt<\/a>. Readers interested in the historical figure of Jesus, or more generally in historical method, are encouraged to take a look. But if you have a strong background in formal logic<\/a>, you are strongly<\/i>\u00a0encouraged to take a look, and perhaps offer a better attempt at turning typical historical-critical arguments into the language of logic than I am able to offer.<\/p>\n

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Tom Verenna asked me to express one of my arguments in the form of a syllogism, and Tom has blogged his response to my attempt. Readers interested in the historical figure of Jesus, or more generally in historical method, are encouraged to take a look. But if you have a strong background in formal logic, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLogic, Syllogisms and History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tom Verenna asked me to express one of my arguments in the form of a syllogism, and Tom has blogged his response to my attempt. 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