It’s just a dog!
One married couple:
- Shared major premise
- Different minor premises that each contained the idea, ” It’s just a dog!”
= opposing conclusions
= marital spat
We’re faced with our old friend, the enthymeme.
An enthymeme is the articulated part of a whole syllogism whose other premises are implicit and unarticulated, but very much present and influential!
His argument went like this:
You should grant me my small, minor requests that are important to me
This particular small, minor request regards getting rid of JUST a dog
Therefore, you should get rid of the dog!
Her argument went like this:
You should grant me my small, minor requests that are important to me
This particular small, minor request regards living with JUST a dog
Therefore, you should get used to living with the dog
Whose desires prevailed? Let’s just say they are still married and learned a lot from navigating the small but important issues in a covenant relationship!
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