syllogize
IPA: sˈɪɫʌdʒaɪz
verb
- (intransitive) To reason by means of syllogisms.
- (transitive) To deduce consequences from.
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Examples of "syllogize" in Sentences
- It is then only that they syllogize unwelcome truths.
- Then, if we are to syllogize, A must be predicated of all B.
- The great question of the future will be to syllogize or not to syllogize.
- But do we not in ordinary life often syllogize in sights and reason in sounds?
- You Catholics argue too much -- deduce, syllogize, and explain -- until the simple splendour of Christ's mysterious act is altogether overlaid and hidden.
- To offer arguments in proof is superfluous -- is trifling -- it is to ape the philosopher who attempted to syllogize himself into a conviction of his own existence!
- Though he generally considers only premise combinations which syllogize in their assertoric forms, he does sometimes extend this; similarly, he sometimes considers conclusions in addition to those which would follow from purely assertoric premises.
- However, Aristotle states his results not by saying that certain premise-conclusion combinations are invalid but by saying that certain premise pairs do not "syllogize": that is, that, given the pair in question, examples can be constructed in which premises of that form are true and a conclusion of any of the four possible forms is false.
- Socrates should be seeking the essence, for he was seeking to syllogize, and ‘what a thing is’ is the starting-point of syllogisms; for there was as yet none of the dialectical power which enables people even without knowledge of the essence to speculate about contraries and inquire whether the same science deals with contraries; for two things may be fairly ascribed to
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