In his 1986 paper {Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic) Thompson offers rules for determining validity and invalidity of so-called "statistical syllogisms" (syllogisms with percentages replacing the traditional quantities of universal and particular) which are both wnsound and mcomplete. As a result, his claim that the genuine 5-quantity syllogistic (the traditional syllogistic with the three "intermediate" quantities added, expressible by "few", "many", and "most") is included in his system is trivial, // true at all. It turns out not to be even true, as revealed by detailed examination of distribution, Thompson's rules, and his claims for equivalences. 1Thompson offers some rules for determining the validity of syllogistic-like argument forms -forms which are just like Aristotelian syllogisms with regard

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