Prosyllogism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A syllogism that is preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism.
  2. 2
    The conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.

Etymology

From pro- + syllogism.

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