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syllogism

Set of philosophical statements devised by Aristotle in his work on logic. It establishes the conditions under which a valid conclusion follows or does not follow by deduction from given premises. The following is an example of a valid syllogism: ‘All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal.’



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But he does not bind up truth in logical formulae,-- logic is still veiled in metaphysics; and the science which he imagines to "contemplate all truth and all existence" is very unlike the doctrine of the syllogism which Aristotle claims to have discovered.
The Republic by Plato View in context
  This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by
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From that premise the school of tulip-fanciers, the most exclusive of all schools, worked out the following syllogism in the same year: --
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