syllogize

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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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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

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)

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

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