What does "syllogistic" mean?

in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises.

What is a synonym for "syllogistic"?

Common synonyms include: a priori, analytic, analytical, categorical, conditional, deductive.

Syllogistic

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Definitions

Noun

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in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises. wordnet

Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to a syllogism.
"Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal.""

Adjective

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of or relating to or consisting of syllogism wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

a priori analytic analytical categorical conditional deductive

Example

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"Logic, in the Middle Ages, and down to the present day in teaching, meant no more than a scholastic collection of technical terms and rules of syllogistic inference."

Etymology

From syllog(ism) + -istic.

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syllogistic fallacy

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