syllogistic

• “Quoth the late great Richard Jeni: It's called syllogistic reasoning, and you get high and proof stuff all day!”

  Math, Logic, and Reality

• “The purpose of this letter is to place in clear, stark terms the syllogistic fallacy long misused by some Americans to promote religion in Government.”

  (Re) Building the Public Square

• “This process is, therefore, usually illustrated in what is called the syllogistic form, thus:”

  Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education

• “If some of them [the practical arts] employ syllogisms as medicine and agriculture do, they are not called syllogistic because their purpose is not [to convince another] nor to employ syllogisms, but to do some activity (1994, p. 29, ll.”

  Ibn Bajja

• “Loughner's ideas about the world, as revealed through his YouTube channel, are exceedingly nebulous, fixated on currency, grammar, and seemingly dominated by the idea that if you say something multiple times in a vaguely syllogistic way, it will become true.”

  The Washington Post: Giffords shooter Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube message to the world

• “He had made a kind of syllogistic analogy: In Tibet”

  Simon & Schuster: Manifesting Michelangelo

• “The facilitator of the thinking module does not need to know anything about "divided middles" or "syllogistic reasoning" or "remote associates.”

  The Huffington Post: Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Adding Thinking to the School Day

• “Likewise, while it would be odd if modern authors in general wrote things that lent itself easily to this sort of structuring except, perhaps, for occasional exceptions like Joyce, who might well do something like encode a syllogistic structure into a book, it would be less odd for poets who grew up learning syllogisms as a major part of their education.”

  Argument in verse

• “Aside from the riddling content and the further evidence of what he means by certain terms that are central to his verse “the this,” the error or perhaps the evil of actual choice, the poem shamelessly lays bare its syllogistic structure:”

  Argument in verse

• “I remember a passage in Alain de Lille's medieval work, the Complaint of Nature, in which he describes sex entirely in syllogistic terms -- as in syllogisms minor and major terms are connected by a single middle terms, in sex minor terms and major terms are connected by a set series of middle terms starting with acquaintance, moving through kisses, and ending in mutual inherence.”

  Argument in verse

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