syllogize

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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 Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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.

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

But she had had experience of her, and knew the instinctive divination that got at objects and results where reason in full-grown man would syllogize into the darkness of despair.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

It is then only that they syllogize unwelcome truths.

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