- A
syllogism (Gr****: συλλογισμός, syllogismos, 'conclusion, inference') is a kind of
logical argument that
applies deductive reasoning to
arrive at a conclusion...
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syllogism (historically
known as
modus tollendo ponens (MTP),
Latin for "mode that
affirms by denying") is a
valid argument form
which is a
syllogism...
- 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...
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clouds in the sky. Thus, it is not raining. In term
logic the law of
syllogism takes two
conditional statements and
forms a
conclusion by
combining the...
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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...
- 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....
- 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....
- An
enthymeme (Gr****: ἐνθύμημα, enthýmēma) is a
rhetorical syllogism used in
oratorical practice.
Originally theorized by Aristotle,
there are four types...
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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....
