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A syllogism (Ancient Gr****: συλλογισμός, syllogismos, 'conclusion, inference') is
a kind
of logical argument that
applies deductive reasoning to arrive...
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rendering it invalid.
Categorical syllogisms always have
three terms:
Major premise:
Weapons are dangerous.
Minor premise:
Knives are weapons. Conclusion:...
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position of the
middle term,
Aristotle divides the
syllogism into
three kinds:
syllogism in the first, second, and
third figure. If the
Middle Term is subject...
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either the
minor premise or the
major premise. It is thus
a syllogistic fallacy. In
classical syllogisms, all
statements consist of two
terms and are...
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Illicit minor is
a formal fallacy committed in
a categorical syllogism that is
invalid because its
minor term is
undistributed in the
minor premise but...
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Aristotelian logic,
baroco is
a mnemonic word used to
memorize a syllogism. Specifically, it has the
first proposition universal and affirmative, but...
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where the
general premise of a syllogism is
supposed to be true,
making the
subsequent deduction necessary, the
general premise of an
enthymeme is merely...
- sign, ∴, is
generally used
before a logical consequence, such as the
conclusion of a syllogism. The
symbol consists of three dots
placed in an
upright triangle...
- the conclusion.
Illicit minor –
a categorical syllogism that is
invalid because its
minor term is not
distributed in the
minor premise but distributed...
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coincides with what is. For Euclid,
premises constitute two
of the
three propositions in
a syllogism, with the
other being the conclusion.
These categorical...
