It is then only that they syllogize unwelcome truths. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Then, if we are to syllogize, A must be predicated of all B. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
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!. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Logic] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
They cannot walk or talk, syllogize or philosophize. From Wordnik.com. [Maverick Philosopher] Reference
The great question of the future will be to syllogize or not to syllogize. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8] Reference
But do we not in ordinary life often syllogize in sights and reason in sounds?. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
You Catholics argue too much -- deduce, syllogize, and explain -- until the simple splendour of Christ's mysterious act is altogether overlaid and hidden. From Wordnik.com. [Paradoxes of Catholicism] Reference
But she had had experience of her, and knew the instinctive divination that got at objects and results where reason in full-grown man would syllogize into the darkness of despair. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII] Reference
We may reason, syllogize, speculate as we will, the first plant and the first tree were not nature's thankless bastards, but her legitimate and loving offspring. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
They amount substantially to this, that the inductions may be made once for all: a single careful interrogation of experience may suffice, and the result may be registered in the form of a general proposition, which is committed to memory or to writing, and from which afterward we have only to syllogize. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
They amount substantially to this, that the inductions may be made once for all: a single careful interrogation of experience may suffice, and the result may be registered in the form of a general proposition, which is committed to memory or to writing, and from which afterwards we have only to syllogize. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
From Grantham, till they had cross’d the Trent, my father was out of all kind of patience at the vile trick and imposition which he fancied my mother had put upon him in this affair — ‘Certainly,’ he would say to himself, over and over again, ‘the woman could not be deceived herself — if she could, — what weakness!’ — tormenting word! — which led his imagination a thorny dance, and, before all was over, play’d the duce and all with him; — for sure as ever the word weakness was uttered, and struck full upon his brain — so sure it set him upon running divisions upon how many kinds of weaknesses there were; — that there was such a thing as weakness of the body, — as well as weakness of the mind, — and then he would do nothing but syllogize within himself for a stage or two together, How far the cause of all these vexations might, or might not, have arisen out of himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
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