Syllogistic

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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
  1. 1
    of or relating to or consisting of syllogism wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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

Etymology

From syllog(ism) + -istic.

Next best steps

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: syllogistic