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syllogism

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
syllogism a mode of argument that forms the core of the body of Western logical thought. Aristotle defined syllogistic logic, and his formulations were thought to be the final word in logic; they underwent only minor revisions in the subsequent 2,200 years. Every syllogism is a sequence of three propositions such that the first two imply the third, the conclusion. There are three basic types of syllogism: hypothetical, disjunctive, and categorical. The hypothetical syllogism, modus ponens, has as its first premise a conditional hypothesis: If p then q; it continues: p, therefore ... Read more
categorical syllogism
A Dictionary of Psychology categorical syllogism n. A conventional syllogism of the type introduced by the Greek philosopher Aristotle ... Examples of propositions that might be used in a categorical syllogism are All men are mortal , No wombats play tennis , Some thunderstorms ... Read more
sorites
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... philosophy, a chain of successive syllogism s in the first figure so related ... conclusions of all the successive syllogisms (except the last) are suppressed ... then yields a chain of n successive syllogisms.soritessoritessorites Read more

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