Syllogism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Logic A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; for example, All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion.
  • n. Reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction.
  • n. A subtle or specious piece of reasoning.
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  • n. An inference in which one proposition (the conclusion) follows necessarily from two other propositions, known as the premises.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A logical formula consisting of two premises and a conclusion alleged to follow from them, in which a term contained in both premises disappears: but the truth of neither the premises nor the conclusion is necessarily asserted.
  • n. Deductive or explicatory reasoning as opposed to induction and hypothesis: a use of the term which has been common since Aristotle.
  • n. See the adjectives.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deductive reasoning    deduction    synthesis   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    elench    elenchus    sorites    enthymeme    epicheirema   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cognition    cogency    retractation    inference    ratiocination   
     
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