The judge's decision wipes out for most of the state's sex offenders a major premise of the law that would have allowed citizens, through local police departments and a statewide " 900 " telephone number, to learn the precise whereabouts of rapists and other sex criminals who are live in their communities.
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.. . requires, a priori, the realization that we wish to state " A live maple has roots ", and the syllogism is merely a deconstruction of the desired conclusion into forms of general statement ( major premise ) and sub-statement ( case within class; minor premise ) that can mean the conclusion.
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Having conceded the minor premise that materiality is an element of the offense the Government argues first, that the major premise is flawed; second, that ( essentially ) a page of history is worth a volume of logic, and uniform practice simply excludes the element of materiality from the syllogism; and third, that stare decisis requires the judgment here to be reversed.
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The major premise on which the argument is based is called " nadon, " or, at a later period, " melammed " ( that which teaches ); the conclusion resulting from the argument is termed ?? ?? ???? ( " ba min ha-din ", that which " comes from the rule " ) or, later, " lamed " ( that which learns ).
