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this isn’t necessarily a valid syllogism depending on how you interpret the first premise you could call it:
but it could also be
and we don’t know which OP meant. if the latter, an I-A-A syllogism is invalid.
because the language of the first premise is ambiguous, it cannot be definitely stated that the argument posed by anon is valid
Oh yeah, thanks for correcting that!