A Classical style, he said, is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. From LearnThat.org. [James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author.]
If you find that plausible, then it surely matters whether the antecedent condition in this little syllogism is actually true. From Wordnik.com. [Exceptions, Rules, and Abortion] Reference
A breech of this rule in a syllogism is the fallacy of. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
The syllogism, which is one of them, may be so regarded in two ways. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Ordinarily, a categorical syllogism is simply called a syllogism, as I shall do here. From Wordnik.com. [GINA COBB] Reference
A syllogism is a deduction consisting of three sentences: two premises and a conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
Against the more obvious forms of this class of fallacies, the rules of the syllogism are a complete protection. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Aristotle and the syllogism was the universal method of presentation and the monotony and wearisomeness becomes evident. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
An argument thus stated regularly and at full length, is called a syllogism; which, therefore, is evidently not a peculiar. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
But Aristotle never got beyond the syllogism, which is a very small part of the subject, and the schoolmen never got beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
A syllogism is a special kind of formal consequence since it requires for its validity that terms be conjoined across sentences. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
According to Buridan, a syllogism is a formal consequence, and so syllogistic becomes a branch of the theory of formal consequence. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
By demonstration I mean a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge, a syllogism, that is, the grasp of which is eo ipso such knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
This pathetic 'syllogism' is so full of holes that a first year student should be failed on it in the first term of Logic 101. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It's called a "syllogism," you prissy, yapping lapdog. From Wordnik.com. [The Jawa Report] Reference
But the syllogism which is through the impossible is of an opposite contradiction. From Wordnik.com. [Works] Reference
Rocky XXXVII) to understand the idea of syllogism, using rhetorical examples involving cat's paws. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore City Paper] Reference
What we have here could be construed as a kind of syllogism (and from now on let's christen this one "The Almunia syllogism"). From Wordnik.com. [A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros] Reference
The essence of her book lies in this opening syllogism. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The gist of the whole matter reduces to a simple syllogism. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Though the simple syllogism is not alluded to in the sketch which. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
State two or three of Burke's arguments in the form of a syllogism. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
Belle-bouche: there's the syllogism, as you tiresome logicians say. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
The syllogism, he contends, (and apparently with complete success,) is but. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
V. -- Your syllogism is perfect in its premises, but the conclusion is false. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
But it would be wrong; our syllogism would have a badly undistributed middle. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
Take for instance the syllogism wherewith Zeno advocated the cause of temperance. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
It bristles with incongruity and contradiction, yet it is as logical as a syllogism. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
The President had the knack of illustrating a false syllogism by a story from the front. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Who ever reasoned better for having been taught the difference between a syllogism and an enthymeme?. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
For a syllogism consists of propositions, propositions of words, and words are the symbols of notions. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
If a single syllogism did not suffice to argue men into virtue surely a condensed series must be effectual. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Had he been aware that the syllogism is no distinct kind of argument otherwise than in form, but is, in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Whatever can be proved at all can be reduced to a syllogism but agreement upon premises is in this case impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Inhumanity of Socialism] Reference
They had a wide name which applied to any part of diction, whether a word or words, a sentence, or even a syllogism. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
With few exceptions they probably admitted the logic of the then accepted syllogism, -- democracy, anarchy, despotism. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Hitherto the mode of demonstration had been by the syllogism; but the syllogism is, in many respects, an incompetent weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
But this is, in fact, to say, that nothing ever was, or can be, proved by syllogism, which was not known, or assumed to be known, before. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
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