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The "Politician's Syllogism" is a logical fallacy of the form:
#redirect [[Something must be done]]
# We must do something
# 'This' is something
# Therefore we must do 'this'
 
Aptly demonstrated in this episode of Yes Minister:
 
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{{quote|Sir Arnold: It’s the old logical fallacy: All cats have four legs. My dog has four legs…..
 
Sir Humphrey: ...Therefore my dog is a cat.
 
Sir Arnold: He’s suffering from politician’s logic.
 
Sir Humphrey: Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
 
Sir Arnold: But doing the wrong thing is worse than doing nothing.
 
Sir Humphrey: Doing anything is worse than doing nothing}}
 
==References==
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[[Category:Yes (Prime) Minister]]

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