syllogism
IPA: sˈɪɫʌdʒɪzʌm
noun
- (logic) An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion.
- (obsolete) A trick, artifice; an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument; a sophism.
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Examples of "syllogism" in Sentences
- It's the syllogism of the simple minded.
- The syllogism is derived from the 1905 paper.
- The present template is a breach of syllogism.
- The rule of inference is a disjunctive syllogism.
- Should the syllogism method of debate be included
- In philosophy, we call the idea hypothetical syllogism.
- But you forget the implied syllogism in the proposition.
- Dingle's syllogism involves the acceleration of objects.
- The disputant sets out to break down the dialectical syllogism.
- Someone has misunderstood the implications of a valid syllogism.
- The biggest problem with your syllogism is the first two words of the first premise: "God is".
- If you find that plausible, then it surely matters whether the antecedent condition in this little syllogism is actually true.
- 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]?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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