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syllogize

[sil-uh-jahyz] / ˈsɪl əˌdʒaɪz /


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The great question of the future will be to syllogize or not to syllogize.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan

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 R. W. Wright

But the human intellect can syllogize, and know causes in effects; all of which is the discursive method.

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

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 James Russell Lowell

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 Saint Thomas Aquinas

Farther, he syllogized, saying, These men are but badly skilled in matters of war, for they have not required my parole, neither have they taken my sword from me.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

And thereon followed such confusion, with the one weeping and groaning, the other denouncing and syllogizing, and each so vehemently, that the good Duke could not tell which to listen to.

From Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster

We suddenly discover that we have been syllogizing like philosophers, as Mrs. Malaprop discovered that her children had been speaking English.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan

The fatal defect consists in this, that it is ill-adapted to bring out the difference between total and partial coincidence of terms, the observation of which is the essential precaution in syllogizing correctly.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill


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