I'll just leave this here

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Swiss Cheese has holes

More swiss cheese = more holes

More holes = less swiss cheese

More swiss cheese = less swiss cheese
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@sadolite
This is to mock syllogisms I gather?

So if this were the syllogism, it's P2 I have issue with:

More holes = less swiss cheese
I understand where you're going here and why you find it funny but since you admitted that the additional holes are present due to there being more swiss cheese (P1) you actually have self-contradiction inside your syllogism because P2 can't be true is this is:

More swiss cheese = more holes

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@sadolite
Holes = cheeseless area
More holes = more cheeseless area

You might have confused cheeseless area with less cheese. If you earn something at an expense but you earn a total net benefit, it wouldn't be right to claim that more earnings = more expenses = less earnings. More expenses are not less earnings especially since more expenses means more earning and more net benefit.

Both the total volume of cheese and the total volume of holes increase proportionally. In the end, when x approaches infinity, both of them approaches infinity.

More cheese lost correlates with more substantial volume of cheese and if the factory producing the swiss cheese is the same, then the proportion of the holes to cheese is relatively constant.

You might have confused cheeseless area with less cheese. If you earn something at an expense but you earn a total net benefit, it wouldn't be right to claim that more earnings = more expenses = less earnings. More expenses are not less earnings especially since more expenses means more earning and more net benefit.
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Cheddar Cheese  has no holes

More Cheddar Cheese = More Cheddar Cheese

More Cheddar Cheese = More Cheddar Cheese

More Cheddar Cheese = More Cheddar Cheese


Solid, hard British Cheese = More Cheese for your Buck.


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more holes gives you less Swiss cheese in a relative, not absolute sense.

Swiss cheese has holes 

absolutely more Swiss cheese = absolutely more holes

absolutely more holes = relatively less Swiss cheese 

absolutely more Swiss cheese = relatively less Swiss cheese

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