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syllogistic
[ sil-uh-jis-tik ]
noun
- the part of logic that deals with syllogisms.
- syllogistic reasoning.
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Other Words From
- syllo·gisti·cal·ly adverb
- nonsyl·lo·gistic noun adjective
- nonsyl·lo·gisti·cal adjective
- nonsyl·lo·gisti·cal·ly adverb
- unsyl·lo·gistic adjective
- unsyl·lo·gisti·cal adjective
- unsyl·lo·gisti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of syllogistic1
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Example Sentences
But it requires no logic, no syllogistic proof, to know that they are telling the truth in this respect.
The argument of the earlier Commissioners' Report runs on lines which it would be easy to put in a priori syllogistic form.
Prynne then proceeds in the book proper to give fifteen arguments against health-drinking, drawn out in syllogistic form.
It was when observation of Nature and its laws became a paramount pursuit that the defects of Syllogistic Logic began to be felt.
The mere syllogistic, the bare forms of equivalent or consistent expression, have a very limited utility, as we shall see.
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