From: TURTLE              
To: DRAGONFLY           
Subject: relig & logic??
Date & Time: 05/22/91 16:19:18
Message Number 17023

>Religious arguments A R E 'logical' - - you have assumptions, ...
 
No, religious arguments borrow the techniques of logic and put their
statements into logical terms. That's not the same thing as saying
they're logical. Any argument that can be phrased as a syllogism is
not necessarily 'logical' because of it.