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Definition: Syllogism |
SyllogismNoun1. Deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "syllogism" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Syllogism \Syl"lo*gism\, noun. [from Old English expression silogisme, Old French silogime, sillogisme, French syllogisme, from Latin expression syllogismus, Greek syllogismo`s reckoning all together, reasoning, syllogism, from syllogi`zesqai to reckon all together, to bring at once before the mind, to infer, conclude; sy`n with, together logi`zesqai to reckon, to conclude by reasoning. See Syn-, and Logistic, Logic.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. (See LOGIC.). Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Syllogism The five hexameter verses which contain the symbolic names of all the different syllogistic figures are as follow:- "Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferioque, prioris. Cesare, Camestres, Festino, Baroko, secundoe. Tertia, Darapti, Disamis, Datisi, Felapton, Bokardo, Ferison, habet. Quarta insuper addit Bramantip, Camenes, Dimaris, Fesapo, Fresison. N.B. The vowel A universal affirmative. E universal negative. I particular affirmative. O particular negative. Taking the first line as the standard, the initial letters of all the words below it show to which standard the syllogism is to be reduced; thus, Baroko is to be reduced to "Barbara," Cesare to "Celarent," and so on. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In traditional logic, a syllogism is an inference in which one proposition (the conclusion) follows of necessity from two others (known as premises).
The definition is traditional, but is derived loosely from Aristotle's Prior Analytics, Book I, c. 1. The Greek sullogismos means "deduction".
Forms of syllogism:
Epagoge are weak syllogisms that rely on inductive reasoning.
See also: Venn diagram
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Syllogism."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reasoning, | Prosyllogism, syllogism; enthymeme, sorites, dilemma, perilepsis, a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem, comprehensive argument; empirema, epagoge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Syllogism |
| English words defined with "syllogism": Aristotelianism ♦ Barbara, Baroko, Bocardo ♦ conclusion ♦ Enthymeme, Epichirema, Episyllogism ♦ major premise, major premiss, major term, middle term, minor premise, minor premiss, minor term ♦ Prosylogism ♦ Sumption, syllogistic, Syllogistical ♦ term, Trilemma. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "syllogism": logic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "syllogism": Prosylogism. (references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The unexpected shoots forth from a syllogism. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore -- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed. |
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| "Syllogism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Syllogism" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
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Expressions using "syllogism": Disjunctive syllogism ♦ minor term of a syllogism. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
syllogism | 55 |
categorical syllogism | 6 |
example syllogism | 4 |
hypothetical syllogism | 4 |
disjunctive syllogism | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "syllogism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | silogizëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | القياس المنطقي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | силогизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 推论式. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sylogismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | syllogisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | syllogisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قیاس منطقی (Postulate, Proposition), قیاس (Analogy, Deduction, Parable, Proportion), قضیه منطقی , صغری وکبری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syllogismi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | syllogisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | syllogismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συλλογισμός (reasoning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "קש (analogy, comparison), 'זר" שו" (analogy, inference), סילו'יזם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szillogizmus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sillogismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 三段論法 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さ" "ろ"ぽう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yllogismsay silogismo. (various references) silogism. (various references) силлогизм. (various references) silogizam, posredni zaključak. (various references) silogismo. (various references) syllogism, stutledning. (various references) การอ้างเหตุผล. (various references) tasım, kıyas (analogy, comparing, comparison). (various references) силогізм, тонкий хід. (various references) sự suy diễn, phương pháp suy luận lý luận khôn ngoan, luận ba đoạn sự suy luận, luận điệu xảo trá. (various references) cyfresymiad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | syllogismos. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | silogisme. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "syllogism": syllogisms. (additional references) | |
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"Syllogism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sillogism, sylilogism, syllagism, syllocism, sylogism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "syllogism" (pronounced 'Syl"lo*gism'): Analogism, Boulangism, Geophagism, Neologism, Paneulogism, Paralogism, Priggism, Prosylogism, Savagism, synergism, Whiggism, Yogism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-l-m-o-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: glossily, lissomly. | |
-3 letters: gismos, glossy, lissom, logily, myosis, siglos, slimly, slimsy. | |
-4 letters: gills, gilly, gismo, glims, gloms, gloss, golly, goyim, limos, lossy, lysis, mills, milos, misos, missy, moils, molls, molly, mossy, sills, silly, silos, slily, slims, slimy, slogs, smogs, soils, sylis, yills, yogis. | |
-5 letters: gill, glim, glom, goys, gyms, ills, illy, isms, lily, limo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-l-m-o-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: syllogisms. | |
+3 letters: polyglotisms. | |
+4 letters: polyglottisms. | |
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