syllogistic reasoning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This process is, therefore, usually illustrated in what is called the syllogistic form, thus. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
Quoth the late great Richard Jeni: It's called syllogistic reasoning, and you get high and proof stuff all day!. From Wordnik.com. [Math, Logic, and Reality] Reference
This is a case of syllogistic reasoning on their part. From Wordnik.com. [THERIOPHILY] Reference
Two other syllogistic forms are expressed below as valid schemata. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Form] Reference
Jevons indicates that traditional syllogistic forms such as Barbara. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Or one may be obtained by syllogistic, the other by inductive inference. From Wordnik.com. [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference
Similarly, the syllogistic schema (10) can be treated as a derived form. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Form] Reference
Px, and there is no way of saying this using just the syllogistic forms. From Wordnik.com. [Model Theory] Reference
This addition has to follow some rules, especially in the syllogistic case. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
(For further discussions of Kilwardby's modal syllogistic, see Thom 2007.) 4. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Modality] Reference
Presumably syllogistic addition, like arithmetic addition, must have its rules. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
Compositio (or synthesis) is the method of syllogistic inference from the principles. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
So it is clear that we shall have not a pure but a problematic syllogistic conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference
Reasoning is of two forms, deductive, or syllogistic, reasoning, and inductive reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
There is nothing wrong with the syllogistic structure of Iago's argument, other than its low premise. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Defenders of psychologistic renderings of logical principles and syllogistic also stood their ground. From Wordnik.com. [Psychologism] Reference
The II moods which have been left valid, after being tested by the syllogistic rules, are as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
I wouldn't dare reduce it to syllogistic form, because it might not hold much water, logically speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
Therefore it is in syllogistic arguments that the more incisive ones produce the keenest heart-searching. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
The syllogistic argumentation here rests on a number of premises whose truth value is at best questionable. From Wordnik.com. [(Re) Building the Public Square] Reference
The difference between the two kinds is the same as that between syllogistic proof and disproof in dialectic. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
He also said that syllogistic logic was ˜to all appearance complete and perfect™; but this was exuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Form] Reference
Nor is a syllogistic conclusion possible when both premisses are affirmative: this also may be proved as above. From Wordnik.com. [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference
Philosophers indicate the principles of syllogism in a similar way, without making use of the syllogistic form. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The proper test of an argument is to put it in syllogistic form, which is impossible with Mr. Ingersoll's arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
This being evident, it is clear that a syllogistic conclusion follows from two premisses and not from more than two. From Wordnik.com. [PRIOR ANALYTICS] Reference
The question may be viewed as the source of a dilemma, both in the practical and in the syllogistic sense of the term. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
The durable outcome of these efforts was a syllogistic procedure for the validation of mathematical limiting processes. From Wordnik.com. [INFINITY] Reference
And if not, what, then, is the syllogistic art but a contrivance for catching you in a trap, and holding you fast in it? '. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
A thesis was propounded, attacked, and defended ( "impugned and propugned") with the proper forms of syllogistic reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
And medieval logicians made great strides in reducing syllogistic logic to two principles: dictum de omni and dictum de nullo. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Form] Reference
Hence syllogistic inference must be possible even without the express statement of what syllogism is or what definable form is. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
By this explanation we are released from the dilemma into which the syllogistic and non-syllogistic party had together thrown us. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
But though all syllogistic reasoning may be tortured into conformity with this type, some of it finds expression more naturally in other ways. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Hence, the conclusion is syllogistic: matter must have originated at some time in the past by methods or means which are equivalent to a real Creation. From Wordnik.com. [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation] Reference
I think it follows, and I submit to the consideration of men capable of arguing, whether as I state it, in syllogistic form, the argument has any fault in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
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