Lauren asked:

I was trying t figure out how to put this into a standard form syllogism. Would you be able to help?

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

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This syllogism is of form AOO-3 and is valid. It is also an enthymeme (or incomplete syllogism) with a
missing minor premise which needs to be supplied. One way of formulating it might be:

(1) All lovers of liberty are lovers of responsibility

(2) Some people are not lovers of responsibility (This is the supplied premise)

(3) Therefore: Some people are not lovers of liberty.

Ken Stern

'Most' is tricky. You can for certain purposes equate 'most' with 'some', but something is lost in the
translation. This can be seen in the following putative inference:

(a) Most philosophers know about logic.

(b) Most philosophers who know about logic, know the meaning of 'incomplete syllogism'.

(c) Therefore most philosophers know the meaning of 'incomplete syllogism'.

This is invalid. Suppose there are ten philosophers in the universe and that seven of them know
about logic. Out of the seven, four know the meaning of 'incomplete syllogism'. Then premisses (a)
and (b) are true but the conclusion (c) is false. This is a a counterexample to the argument I have just
given. If you can find a counterexample to an argument, then it is invalid.

Geoffrey Klempner