Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Logic A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; for example, All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion.
- noun Reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction.
- noun A subtle or specious piece of reasoning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A logical formula consisting of two premises and a conclusion alleged to follow from them, in which a term contained in both premises disappears: but the truth of neither the premises nor the conclusion is necessarily asserted.
- noun Deductive or explicatory reasoning as opposed to induction and hypothesis: a use of the term which has been common since Aristotle.
- noun See the adjectives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Logic) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the
premises , and the last, theconclusion . The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun logic An
inference in which oneproposition (theconclusion ) follows necessarily from two other propositions, known as thepremises .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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The biggest problem with your syllogism is the first two words of the first premise: "God is".
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The biggest problem with your syllogism is the first two words of the first premise: "God is".
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Nonsense and faith (strange as the conjuction may seem) are the two supreme syblolic assertions of the turhtu that to draw out the souls of things with a syllogism is as impossible as to draw out Leviathan with a hook.
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Nonsense and faith (strange as the conjuction may seem) are the two supreme syblolic assertions of the turhtu that to draw out the souls of things with a syllogism is as impossible as to draw out Leviathan with a hook.
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Nonsense and faith (strange as the conjuction may seem) are the two supreme syblolic assertions of the turhtu that to draw out the souls of things with a syllogism is as impossible as to draw out Leviathan with a hook.
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For the sake of those unacquainted with that art, it may not be improper to observe that the above argument is what they call a syllogism, and that a syllogism consists of three propositions.
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But the human faculties are fortified by the art and practice of dialectics; the ten predicaments of Aristotle collect and methodize our ideas, 59 and his syllogism is the keenest weapon of dispute.
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So your syllogism is that [biometric ID required for all US Citizens] = = [persons detained for lawful reasons being required to present ID as a check of citizenship]?
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If you find that plausible, then it surely matters whether the antecedent condition in this little syllogism is actually true.
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The Greeks have but one word, logos, for both speech and reason; not that they thought there was no speech without reason, but no reasoning without speech; and the act of reasoning they called syllogism; which signifieth summing up of the consequences of one saying to another.
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