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259 By this explanation we are released from the dilemma into which the syllogistic and non-syllogistic party had together thrown us.— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
This process is, therefore, usually illustrated in what is called the syllogistic form, thus All men are mortal Socrates is a man Socrates is mortal When particular knowledge about an individual thing or event is thus inferred by comparing two known statements, it is said to be secured by a process of deduction_, or by inference GENERAL KNOWLEDGE In all of the above examples, whether experienced through the senses, built up by an act of imagination, or gained by inference, the knowledge is of a single thing, fact, organism, or unity, possessing a real or imaginary existence.— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
Hence, the conclusion is syllogistic: matter must have originated at some time in the past by methods or means which are equivalent to a real Creation Thus far, at least, the record of Genesis is confirmed: "In the beginning God created II THE ORIGIN OF ENERGY I What has been regarded by many as the greatest scientific triumph of modern times was worked out about the middle of the last century by James Prescott Joule and others, in determining that a certain amount of mechanical energy is exactly equivalent to a definite amount of heat.— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
The conflict concerns, secondly, the use of the deductive (syllogistic) or the inductive method.— History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
In regard to deductive or syllogistic reasoning, the views of— Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

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