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to categorical syllogisms that consist of three categorical propositions, including categorical modal syllogisms. The use of syllogisms as a tool for understanding...

investigation of this kind of syllogisms. Hypothetical syllogisms come in two types: mixed and pure. A mixed hypothetical syllogism has two premises: one conditional...

syllogism: All cats have four legs. My dog has four legs. Therefore, my dog is a cat. This invalid form of argument, labeled AAA-2 among syllogisms,...

generalization true for the most part to a particular case. Statistical syllogisms may use qualifying words like "most", "frequently", "almost never", "rarely"...

Legal syllogism is a legal concept concerning the law and its application, specifically a form of argument based on deductive reasoning and seeking to...

syllogism (historically known as modus tollendo ponens (MTP), Latin for "mode that affirms by denying") is a valid argument form which is a syllogism...

A prosleptic syllogism (/prəˈslɛptɪk/; from Greek πρόσληψις proslepsis "taking in addition") is a class of syllogisms that use a prosleptic proposition...

polysyllogism need not be limited to two component syllogisms. In fact, it can have any number of component syllogisms. Second, validity depends on all its parts...

Quasi-syllogism is a categorical syllogism where one of the premises is singular, and thus not a categorical statement. For example: All men are mortal...

practical syllogisms are only called syllogisms analogically. Since they do not consist of at least three propositions, they are not syllogisms properly...

Aristotle identifies valid and invalid forms of arguments called syllogisms. A syllogism is an argument that consists of at least three sentences: at least...

propositions (30–7) On categorical syllogisms (1–19) On modal syllogisms (20–30) On mixed syllogisms (31–64) On syllogisms containing exponible propositions...

– stated) Therefore, Socrates is mortal. (conclusion – stated) While syllogisms lay out all of their premises and conclusion explicitly, these kinds of...

2015, 4. Categorical Syllogisms; Copi, Cohen & Rodych 2019, 6. Categorical Syllogisms. Groarke; Hurley 2015, 4. Categorical Syllogisms; Copi, Cohen & Rodych...

traditional names for two of the syllogisms of Aristotelian logic A mnemonic poem by William of Sherwood listing the syllogisms A pseudonym of Andrew Abbott...

unjustified”. For syllogisms where the content was neutral, the results were consistent with studies of belief bias; however, for syllogisms with negative...

syllogistic logic, there are 256 possible ways to construct categorical syllogisms using the A, E, I, and O statement forms in the square of opposition....

paper "On the syllogism, No. IV" and in his book Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic (1860). He showed that reasoning with syllogisms could be replaced...

In Reformed theology, the practical syllogism (Latin: syllogismus practicus): 135  is a concept relating assurance of salvation to evidence in a person's...

Topics (Ἀνηγμένων τόπων, Τοπικῶν and Τὰ πρὸ τῶν τόπων); on the Analysis of Syllogisms (Περὶ ἀναλύσεως συλλογισμῶν and Περὶ συλλογισμῶν λύσεως), on Sophisms...