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SYLLOGISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("syllogism" is a kind of...):

deduction; deductive reasoning; synthesis (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))

Meronyms (parts of "syllogism"):

conclusion; ratiocination (the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism))

major premise; major premiss (the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion))

minor premise; minor premiss; subsumption (the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion))

Derivation:

syllogise (reason by syllogisms)

syllogist (logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning)

syllogistic (of or relating to or consisting of syllogism)

syllogize (reason by syllogisms)

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