syllogize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- nonsyllogizing adjective
- syllogization noun
- syllogizer noun
Etymology
Origin of syllogize
1375–1425; late Middle English silogysen < Late Latin syllogizāre < Greek syllogízesthai to reason, equivalent to syl- syl- + logízesthai to reckon, infer, equivalent to lóg ( os ) discourse ( logos ) + -izesthai -ize
Example Sentences
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It is then only that they syllogize unwelcome truths.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
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 Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
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 Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay
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 Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
But the human intellect can syllogize, and know causes in effects; all of which is the discursive method.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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