syllogize

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To offer arguments in proof is superfluous—is trifling—it is to ape the philosopher who attempted to syllogize himself into a conviction of his own existence!

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

It is then only that they syllogize unwelcome truths.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

But during sleep the senses are suspended, as is said in De Somn. et Vigil. i and yet it sometimes happens to us to syllogize while asleep.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

We may reason, syllogize, speculate as we will, the first plant and the first tree were not nature's thankless bastards, but her legitimate and loving offspring.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

The men who attack abuses are not so much to be dreaded by the reigning house of Superstition as those who, as Dante says, syllogize hateful truths.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell