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• One sits down first, one thinks afterwards.
• Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
  Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds....
• Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterwards.
• Sentence first -- verdict afterwards. -- Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Major premise: Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man.
  Minor premise: A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds....
• LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
  The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thu...
• dictionary flame n. [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise.
  A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality....
• dictionary flame: [USENET] n. An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise.
  A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality....