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syllogism

noun as in deductive reasoning

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Of course, “No means Yes” is a novel logical syllogism, but anything is possible.

This seems like an example of my favorite policy syllogism: 1.

There's a terrible syllogism that tends to follow on tragedies like this:   1.

I thought I would be protected by historical precision, reputation, syllogism and sincerity.

It is rarely the case in literature that the syllogism is fully stated: generally one of the premises is omitted.

If the major premise of this syllogism be granted, the conclusion is unquestionable.

However, if this were put into a syllogism, it would read as follows: All persons who do wrong pay the penalty soon.

Whatever can be proved at all can be reduced to a syllogism but agreement upon premises is in this case impossible.

But Aquinas, with his Aristotelian method of syllogism and definitions, could not go beyond Augustine.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to syllogism, such as: argument, deduction, dialectic, logic, reasoning, and prologism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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