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Syllogistic in a sentence
Syllogistic meaning
Of or pertaining to a syllogism.
Using Syllogistic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to a syllogism.
- Useful related words include: deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis.
- In the example corpus, syllogistic often appears in combinations such as: the syllogistic, syllogistic from, syllogistic reasoning.
Context around Syllogistic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Syllogistic
- In this selection, "syllogistic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aristotelian, hypothetical, illustrate, reasoning, effectively and framework stand out and add context to how "syllogistic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aristotle s syllogistic from the and a hypothetical syllogistic which was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "syllogistic" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with syllogistic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic. (10 words)
Syllogistic fallacies seeAlso People often make mistakes when reasoning syllogistically. (10 words)
Logic Euler is also credited with using closed curves to illustrate syllogistic reasoning (1768). (14 words)
Eventually dissatisfied, by 1900 he distinguished them once and for all and also wrote that he now took the syllogistic forms and the doctrine of logical extension and comprehension as being less basic than he had thought. (37 words)
The other, the third thema, was a cut rule by which chain syllogisms could be reduced to simple syllogisms. citation The purpose of Stoic syllogistic was not merely to create a formal system. (33 words)
Cf. Łukasiewicz, (1951) Aristotle’s Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic, Chapter IV "Aristotle's System in Symbolic Form" (section on "Explanation of the Symbolism"), p. 78 and on. (31 words)
Example sentences (12)
Ockham was probably the first logician to treat empty terms in Aristotelian syllogistic effectively; he devised an empty term semantics that exactly fit the syllogistic.
Aristotle explicitly formulated the law of the excluded middle and law of non-contradiction in justifying his system, although these laws cannot be expressed as judgments within the syllogistic framework.
Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic.
Cf. Łukasiewicz, (1951) Aristotle’s Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic, Chapter IV "Aristotle's System in Symbolic Form" (section on "Explanation of the Symbolism"), p. 78 and on.
Eventually dissatisfied, by 1900 he distinguished them once and for all and also wrote that he now took the syllogistic forms and the doctrine of logical extension and comprehension as being less basic than he had thought.
Galen also rejected Stoic propositional logic and instead embraced a hypothetical syllogistic which was strongly influenced by the Peripatetics and based on elements of Aristotelian logic.
Logic Euler is also credited with using closed curves to illustrate syllogistic reasoning (1768).
Syllogistic fallacies seeAlso People often make mistakes when reasoning syllogistically.
The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise : "Whatever has the property of thinking, exists", a premise Descartes did not justify.
The other, the third thema, was a cut rule by which chain syllogisms could be reduced to simple syllogisms. citation The purpose of Stoic syllogistic was not merely to create a formal system.
This led to the rapid development of sentential logic and first-order predicate logic, subsuming syllogistic reasoning, which was, therefore, after 2000 years, suddenly considered obsolete by many.
While his Latin translation of Prior Analytics went primarily unused before the twelfth century, his textbooks on the categorical syllogism were central to expanding the syllogistic discussion.
Common combinations with syllogistic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: