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# [The Syllogism Gap: Why Formal Logic Is Not Reasoning — And What It Means for AI](https://daimones.hashnode.dev/the-syllogism-gap-why-formal-logic-is-not-reasoning-and-what-it-means-for-ai?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

What if the entire symbolic AI tradition got Aristotle wrong? The syllogism is a technology of demonstration, not a theory of reasoning and confusing

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