The (almost really) Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

Symbolic Logic. Specimen-Syllogisms. (2nd Ed.) Conclusions

Source: printed 1894

1. Logic is unitelligible.

2. Some kinds of jam need not be shunned.

3. [No conclusion.]

4. Some peacocks cannot sing.

5. Some chocolate-creams are delicious.

6. [No conclusion.]

7. Easy riddles do not interest me.

8. [No conclusion.]

9. No photograph of a lady is satisfactory.

10. Those, who are fully occupied, are contented; and discontented people are not fully occupied.

11. All niggers are short.

12. Honesty is sometimes the best policy.

13. Some things, that dazzle the eyes, are not gold.

14. The assertion “the only thing he has told me is that he is planning to go abroad” is false.

15. The assertion “I have no black dogs that have won prizes and no valuable greyhounds” is false.

16. Cats are forbidden in my house.

17. Boots are not made of buttered toast; and things made of buttered toast are not boots.

18. All my pins are unbendable.

19. Ungraceful creatures, who are not fond of apples, are not elephants.

20. Architects do not live on muffins; and those, who live on muffins, are not architects.

[Feb., 1894]