Talk:lemming logic

RFV discussion
Can we find citations that show that this is in use and either an idiom or not? DCDuring TALK 16:59, 6 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Lazy man cites: b.g.c
 * Happy ending: a novel‎ - Francesca Duranti - Fiction - 1991 - 165 pages
 * How could a panettone, itself a product of lemming logic, stave off the senseless accumulation of waste, the mad flight of a present without memory and...
 * The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk‎ - Henry Weinfield - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 241
 * ... in which one "nation" or "people" has risen up in war against others until it too succumbed to the lemming logic in which it was enmeshed. ...
 * A Chalice of Miracles‎ - John W. Casperson - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 620 pages
 * But then, applying lemming logic to mass media, why should attention given to a deranged assassin be any different from a deranged religi-bomber who ...
 * There are piles and piles of groups cites out there too (some of which are quite humorous) but I think it is probably a reasonable keep. - 16:57, 29 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Cited IMHO — I've just added all five b.g.c. hits, of which four seem to be valid uses — but I would not oppose deletion. I see no evidence that this is a set phrase, much less an idiom. Move to RFD? —Ruakh TALK 23:02, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

RFV passed. —Ruakh TALK 20:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

lemming logic
This is too rare, and the occurrences of it too far-flung, for me to believe that it's a real idiom. Rather, it's a straightforward use of the figurative sense of. B.G.C. also turns up a use of "lemming argument", at least a dozen uses of "lemming approach", and so on. —Ruakh TALK 20:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. DCDuring TALK 22:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * BTW, this is also synonymous or nearly so with "sheep logic", "herd logic", "crowd logic", and "mob logic". DCDuring TALK 23:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * In the discussion on luna kratero, user:Widsith said "delete " about this entry also. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 17:33, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Deleted but preserving citations. DAVilla 10:10, 27 October 2010 (UTC)