- A
syllogism (Gr****: συλλογισμός, syllogismos, 'conclusion, inference') is a kind of
logical argument that
applies deductive reasoning to
arrive at a conclusion...
- In
classical logic, a
hypothetical syllogism is a
valid argument form, a
syllogism with a
conditional statement for one or both of its premises. An example...
-
syllogism (historically
known as
modus tollendo ponens (MTP),
Latin for "mode that
affirms by denying") is a
valid argument form
which is a
syllogism...
-
Legal syllogism is a
legal concept concerning the law and its application,
specifically a form of
argument based on
deductive reasoning and s****ing to...
- A
statistical syllogism (or
proportional syllogism or
direct inference) is a non-deductive
syllogism. It argues,
using inductive reasoning, from a generalization...
- The politician's
syllogism, also
known as the politician's
logic or the politician's fallacy, is a
logical fallacy of the form: We must do something....
- The
practical syllogism is an
instance of
practical reasoning which takes the form of a
syllogism,
where the
conclusion of the
syllogism is an action....
- 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...
- argument. It is also
known as a
rhetorical syllogism and is used in
oratorical practice.
While the
syllogism is used in dialectic, or the art of logical...
- multi-premise
syllogism, sorites, climax, or gradatio) is a
string of any
number of
propositions forming together a
sequence of
syllogisms such that the...
