“In ordinary logic, almost all effort is concentrated on the syllogism. The logicians seem scarcely to have thought about induction. They pass it by with barely a mention and hurry on their formulas for disputation. But we reject proof by syllogism because it operates in confusion and lets nature slip out of our hands…” — Sir Francis Bacon, London, 1620Where is Sir Francis Bacon when we really need him?
As a pioneer of the scientific method, Bacon recognized that reliance on syllogisms led medieval thinkers astray. That same deficient approach to understanding nature is embedded in the “global warming” hysteria.
