Tuesday

Rosemary

enthymeme - a syllogism with an unstated assumption which must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion

Shards of these porous trestles, powdered in the night – it can only be the work of the master’s frenzied, knuckled might.

The three parts:

There are remnants of two cinder blocks on Centre St. at 1am. (premise)

It must have been the work of a martial arts master. (conclusion)

Only a martial arts master can break cinder blocks. (implicit premise)

No comments: