syllogism
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Syllogism One night last week there was a rosy sunset in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Syllogism In Chicago, dismissing the complaint of Fruiterer Allen Brill that Customer A. E. Banks had hit him on the head with twelve melons.
From Time Magazine Archive
If however the Syllogism of Terms is to be completed as an abstract doctrine, the Fourth Figure must be noticed as one of the forms of premisses that contain the required relation between the extremes.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
Syllogism, sil′ō-jizm, n. logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, which follows from them, the conclusion.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The inventor of the Syllogism had a definite practical purpose, to get at the simplest, most convincing, undeniable and irresistible way of putting admitted or self-evident propositions so that their implication should be apparent.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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