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What is the purpose of the scene in Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich in which Ivan Ilyich thinks about the following logical argument, known as a syllogism?

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The purpose of the scene in Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich in which Ivan Ilyich thinks about the following logical argument, known as a syllogism is to show that to show that all men are mortal and therefore Ivan Ilyich, a man, must die.


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