syllogisms's Usage Examples:

Aristotle, indeed, was as well aware as German logicians of the force of convertible premises; but he was also aware that they require no special syllogisms, and made it a point that; in a syllogism from a definition, the definition is the middle, and the definitum the major in a convertible major premise of Barbara in the first figure, e.

Schuppe, however, who is a fertile creator of quasi-syllogisms, has managed to invent some examples from two negative premises of a different kind: (I) (2) (3) No MisP.

Sigwart, indeed, has missed the essential difference between the categorical and the hypothetical construction of syllogisms.

Equally fallacious are two other attempts of Schuppe to produce syllogisms from invalid moods: (1) 1st Fig.

The parts of logic which he treated with most minuteness are modal propositions and modal syllogisms.

It is perhaps not wholly fanciful to connect with this attitude the fact that Aristotle's pupils dealt with a surer hand than the master with the conclusions from premises of unlike modality, and that a formal advance of some significance attributable to Theophrastus and Eudemus is the doctrine of the hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms.

Aristotelian syllogisms constituted the deductive schemas for logical inference and were relatively uncontroversial.

The premises of scientific syllogisms may equally be dismissed.

His name has been preserved chiefly by some celebrated, though false and captious, syllogisms of which he was the reputed author.

Synonyms:

subsumption, major premise, deduction, ratiocination, synthesis, major premiss, minor premiss, minor premise, conclusion, deductive reasoning,

Antonyms:

beginning, activation, continuance, continuation, monetization,