| 单词 | syllogism |
| 例句 | Ideally, it should be possible to formulate every scientific argument in syllogistic terms, a syllogism being, for example: All men are mortal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The syllogism is a way of combining two premises and drawing a fresh conclusion that follows logically from them. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For Aristotle, logos was the province of something he called an “enthymeme,” which was the equivalent in rhetoric to the syllogism in logic. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It is, if you like, a half-assed syllogism; typically one that, rather than having its premises right out in the open, has a hidden assumption somewhere.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It worked itself out as simply as a syllogism. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “State your proposition as a three- part proof. A syllogism.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Such as: the meaning of isomerism; what a categorical syllogism is; and who the Hanseatic League were. University Challenge | TV Review 2010-04-06T05:45:00Z Watching him complete the syllogism in his head, and watching Juan’s reaction, is heartbreaking. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Like the classic syllogism "All men are mortal, Aristotle is a man, therefore Aristotle is mortal" — that's what's used to teach the classic "This is what an argument looks like." A talk with Benjamin Apple, 'Cubed' star, 'comedy person' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z "It's very interesting these syllogisms we set up in our head," says Morris. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z Sonnets, syllogisms, declensions, puns, quips and carefully constructed insults are fired off in a nonstop, ever-escalating battle of wits. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z As the sinuous sentences unfold, aphorism following insight, metaphor converted into syllogism, we realize Proust is as rigorous a thinker as he is fabulist, heir to Descartes, companion to Freud. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z She knows her way around a syllogism, but she also knows that persuasion is not reducible to reason—that the best arguments, on their own, do not always win. The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z I became a philosophy major, and that also kind of pushed me into being clear on the syllogisms in my life. Antiabortion leader Marjorie Dannenfelser: ‘You can never build human rights on the broken rights of other people’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The syllogism he implies is comforting: Only idiots are afraid of sharks; you are not an idiot; therefore you are not afraid of sharks. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z The contention that fakes are the supreme modern art form rests on a false syllogism: modern art, Keats argues, intends to unsettle; fakes unsettle us; therefore fakes are great art. Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats – review 2013-06-28T07:00:00Z Gregerson instead sets up clean arguments, even syllogisms, in complex sentences designed to fasten us to her considered conclusions. A Poet Looks at the End of the World, and Reaches for Hope 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Above all, he sees the Darwinian syllogism of evolution by natural selection as a "universal acid" that applies to animate and inanimate alike, to species and societies, to technologies and philosophies. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z Mr. Garland seemed stumped but replied: “At a high level of generality, it seems like a syllogism. If it’s unauthorized, it shouldn’t have appropriations.” House conservatives eye ‘unauthorized’ spending to broadly slash federal budget following debt deal 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z “My answer to the question is, Abraham Lincoln wrote a syllogism about slavery,” Crow said, holding up a small, handwritten sheet of paper that’s in a protective sleeve, a word or two crossed out. Harlan Crow: There’s nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z This common argument form is called a disjunctive syllogism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Logic and syllogisms don’t carry us very far in the law,” he said. If Roe Falls, Is Same-Sex Marriage Next? 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z The political syllogism is unavoidable: If citizens are armed against the advance of tyranny, and tyranny is advancing apace, then violence is justified, even if it is not currently advisable. Opinion | Trump supporters’ logic of political violence should alarm us all 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Putin then spun a remarkable syllogism, arguing that since the United States regarded Russia as “an enemy,” U.S.-supported human rights advocates in Russia were enemies of his state. Opinion | Biden to Putin: Stability, sure. But democracy matters. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z But corporate media use these tortured syllogisms, serving as mouthpieces for the U.S. government. Coronavirus panic: Media blends elements of "yellow peril" and Red Scare 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z The form itself looks like a good argument—a form of disjunctive syllogism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z So this syllogism makes no sense, but still it persists. Opinion | You want to know who is electable? 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z But his syllogism was based on a false premise. Pentagon's phony Iran "evidence": New rationale for U.S. intervention? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Such once comfortable syllogisms, needless to say, are facing mounting skepticism. Israelis vs. Jews: An Issue in Netanyahu’s Campaign—and for the AIPAC Conference 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z It was like a bizarre syllogism: these clothes are in photographs, the photographs look good, ergo these clothes look good. 'I looked like a clown': the truth about shopping on Instagram 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z But the motion, that extraordinary charisma communicated not through image or syllogism but through rhythm alone, remains as permanent as a fingerprint. Adrian Piper’s Show at MoMA is the Largest Ever for a Living Artist. Why Hasn’t She Seen It? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Wait, there is a flaw in the syllogism, somewhere. Show-me time is just about to begin for Magic and the Lakers 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Shapiro tries to appeal to both the pro-Trump and the anti-Trump factions of the Republican base, spitting out indignant syllogisms in a rapid nasal delivery that sounds like a podcast played at double speed. How Social-Media Trolls Turned U.C. Berkeley Into a Free-Speech Circus 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Jack London wrote about the “imaginative” drunk for whom the “white light of alcohol” granted access to bleak truths about the human conditions — what he called “the pitiless, spectral syllogisms of the white logic.” Does Recovery Kill Great Writing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The type of reasoning in question, process of elimination, is formally called “disjunctive syllogism.” Babies can logically reason even before they can talk 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Complex because intelligence rarely tosses a tight syllogism at a policymaker, a series of incontrovertible “statements” followed by some inevitable “therefore.” Intel, Obama and walking away from the red line in Syria 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Today, I, like many millennials, cannot swallow the following syllogism: The Republican Party is the party that best represents my beliefs. Why Republican Millennials Want to Dump Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The majority’s approach ignores those realities, she wrote, “rejects contextual analysis in favor of a syllogism” and leaves Puerto Rico “powerless and with no legal process to help” its citizens. Supreme Court Rejects Puerto Rico Law in Debt Restructuring Case 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z If these two statements were propositions in a syllogism, then the logical conclusion would be that men want fatherhood. Pot luck 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But it is out of touch to believe his syllogism about race and discrimination is realistic today—that the way to become a color-blind society is to stop being color-conscious. Thurgood Marshall and the Need for Affirmative Action 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s as if he mistook the bandwagon effect for a syllogism. Trump Ergo Trump 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z For myself, and numerous – dare I say a majority – of other conservative millennials, that syllogism is frightening. Why Republican Millennials Want to Dump Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The Trump syllogism: Every politician is bought by billionaires. Donald Trump will inevitably flame out. Here’s why. 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Two weeks ago, Chet Haze, the putative rapper and son of the actor Tom Hanks, took to Instagram with a questionable syllogism. Black Like Her: Rachel Dolezal and Our Lies About Race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z I’ll admit that the quote above sounds like an unconvincing syllogism. Stress Test: Memorial Day Beach Reading? 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z When Kenneth Gilhooly and his colleagues presented syllogisms orally, it placed a higher demand on working memory as participants had to store the premises in their head. Working Memory and Fluid Reasoning: Same or Different? 2014-01-22T15:06:06Z I fought for two more years to hold on, thinking that having the syllogisms from my catechism straight in my head would help me stand firm. I’m Still Not Going Back to the Catholic Church 2013-09-29T09:45:27Z Philpott has become part of an unpleasant syllogism, shamelessly created by the beleaguered chancellor, George Osborne, in his efforts to portray the coalition's welfare "reforms" as grounded in morality and fairness. From welfare to banks, fairness is the key 2013-04-06T23:06:13Z This syllogism is a bit like arguing the following: This paper shows that: 1. Demography and inequality: Baby monitor 2012-08-10T08:51:10Z In Kennedy’s syllogism, democracy benefits from more speech. Karl Rove: He's Back, Big Time 2012-07-26T10:00:12Z A syllogism leads us to declare that the piano is an after-thought. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z In exposition, the progress was regular from syllogism to syllogism, great care being taken never to skip over a middle term. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Without women, man is a sterile syllogism—he does not conclude!' The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Unlike the majority of logicians of the time, he admitted the absolute validity of the second and third figures of the syllogism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Now," says Ozanam, "mysteries were subjected to definitions, and revelation was divided into syllogisms. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The syllogism runs thus: The moon receives light from the sun, which 456 is the spiritual power; the temporal ruling power is the moon; therefore the temporal receives authority from the spiritual. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The last link of that syllogism, however, is a rule with occasional exceptions. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z It may go one short step farther: it may arrange its propositions in syllogisms, and deduce general conclusions, or laws. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z These three syllogisms, constituting the one syllogism of the absolute self-mediation of spirit, are the revelation of that spirit whose life is set out as a cycle of concrete shapes in pictorial thought. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But we must reply to it by making a distinction against the major premise of the syllogism which they employ. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z That is true, but the minor proposition in a syllogism drawn from that statement is to be emphatically denied. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Your grasp of this Old and New World Question renders it superfluous that I should now posit the syllogism. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z Mental representation is the mean in the syllogism of the elevation of intelligence, the link between the two significations of self-relatedness—viz. being and universality, which in consciousness receive the title of object and subject. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The whole treatise, almost, consists of a series of syllogisms, linked together with apparent perfectness, syllogisms pertaining to an abstract something called Will. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z But in all of this exposition of Lincoln's logical force and skill there has been no mention of a syllogism. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z It is clear that a physicist cannot dispense with correct syllogisms or with vigilance against illusions of the senses and other errors of method. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z For it is a well-known fact that syllogisms can only be regarded as forming part of a sound education if the conclusions are obviously true. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z The first appearance is formed by the syllogism, which is based on the Logical system as starting-point, with Nature for the middle term which couples the Mind with it. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z By this very syllogism, multitudes have supposed that the doctrine of Necessity has been established with all the distinctness and force of demonstration. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z To the logical click in a well-formed syllogism his inner ear was well attuned. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z There can be no truth which could be brought out by means of syllogisms alone; and the necessity of establishing truth by means of syllogisms is merely relative, indeed subjective. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Also if a man is unhappy he could not, from our premisses, by the principles of the syllogism and of contraposition, be dignified—a conclusion which should be fatal to many novelists’ heroes. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z It is the syllogism where Mind reflects on itself in the Idea: philosophy appears as a subjective cognition, of which liberty is the aim, and which is itself the way to produce it. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The latter drawing is as grotesquely logical as a syllogism by Lewis Carroll. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The major premiss of the foregoing syllogism, that "whatever manifests design must have had a designer," is a pure assumption, if by design is meant adaptation in Nature. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z If many spheres are brought together in this way we get a long train of syllogisms. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Doubt has often been expressed as to whether a syllogism can add to our knowledge in any way. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z In the second case there arises a syllogism of some such form as: All fire causes burning upon contact. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Law jargon, quibbles, quiddities, preposterous syllogisms, fragments of distorted Latin, misapplied quotations from the Pandects, mingle with metaphysics, astrology, and physical chim�ras about the spheres and elements and humours, in his talk. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The whole matter may be disposed of briefly by one or two simple syllogisms which everybody can comprehend. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z If this perception were always as much within our reach as a deduction through syllogisms, then it would be in every respect preferable. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The truth also results from the fact that it is used as the conclusion of a syllogism. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z Both premises of this syllogism are inductive inferences, whose implicit meaning becomes clear when we formulate as follows: All heretofore investigated instances of fire have burned, therefore all fire burns. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z These commodious sets of syllogisms were called strings, and descended from undergraduate to undergraduate in a regular succession like themes and mechanical drawings in an American club or fraternity. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The form of mediæval disputations was kept up by the farcical repetition of strings of senseless syllogisms, which were handed down from generation to generation of students. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Therefore it must in some way be possible to know directly without demonstrations or syllogisms every truth that is arrived at through syllogisms and communicated by demonstrations. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z If the reader will take the trouble to construct the syllogism on which this is based, he will at once perceive the absurdity of the logic. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The first syllogism goes from the particular to the particular. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z But admitting miracles, the syllogism should be thus:— The laws of nature were in their eternal establishment perfect;—the laws of nature have been altered; therefore, the alteration of the laws of nature is imperfect. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z For the American Constitution was but the grand conclusion of that lingering bloody syllogism of freedom, of which the Treaty of Munster was the major premise. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The whole doctrine of judgment, syllogism and method is a mixture of Aristotelian and Ramist notions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z "If we're shipwrecked, we ought to be doing something," said the bride suddenly, in the tone of one announcing the concluding clause of a syllogism. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Scientific proof, in his conception, is furnished in the form of the syllogism, whose component elements are terms and propositions. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z To form the foregoing argument into syllogisms, it would be thus:— God is perfect—the laws of nature were established by God; therefore, the laws of nature are perfect. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z But these two syllogisms, if driven up to their ultimate conclusions, would lead to nonsense on the one hand and cruelty on the other. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z Now it is the major of this syllogism that I undertake to prove, the minor being so clear from their history, that to prove it by witnesses were to do what is already done. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z They fail through supposing that words of intense emotion must be interpreted like a syllogism or a lawyer's parchment. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The syllogism is rejected as a scientific instrument, because it does not lead to principles, but proceeds only from principles, and is therefore not useful for discovery. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The logical management of the syllogism involves much abstruseness respecting 'genus' and 'species,' the 'quantity' and 'quality' of 'propositions', 'contraries,' 'sub-contraries,' 'contradictions,' and 'subalterns.' A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Fortunately, wisdom avoids both extremes; it fears the brutality of hard and fast syllogisms, which are absurd even by their very severity. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z These roll out euthymemes, these use the better form of perfect syllogisms. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z There is no zeal in it, no passion for God's honour, no spiritual insight, it is as heartless as a syllogism. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Drobisch holds, therefore, that the falsity of the judgment expressed in the premise from which a formally correct syllogism may be deduced, is not subject-matter for logic. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z They jump the middle terms of their syllogisms, it is true, and assume premises to which the world has not yet arrived; but time stamps their deductions as invincible.'* A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z It is founded entirely on logic; but unfortunately, if the premisses are bad, the better the syllogism the more erroneous will be the conclusion; and it is just this which we find here. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z I don't know the difference between a syllogism and a sequence. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Could you make a "born artist" comprehend a syllogism? The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The old logic set up the syllogism as the type of thought-activity, and its simplest example is the well-known All men are mortal, Caius is a man, Therefore Caius is mortal. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z He confines the province of logic, as an art, to 'employing language properly for the purpose of reasoning,' and restricts the logician to the use of the syllogism as the sole test of argument. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The professor seemed to himself to be driving through the terms of a false syllogism. Loveliness A Story 2011-04-27T02:00:23.450Z Are new systems discovered by syllogisms, yet they are proved and tried by them? The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z Now, one of the fallacies of the argument of the necessitarian is, that it is an attempt to draw a conclusion from the axiomatical truth above referred to, as from the major of a syllogism. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z It was branded, however, as the worst of all, by the name of incomplete induction, since the absolute certainty demanded of the syllogism did not belong to its results. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Forms of speech, classification of propositions, figures of syllogisms, are of minor importance when you have once elicited the rough truth. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Nothing of that subtle fineness, which with nineteen kinds of syllogisms, knows how to explain all that, which has ever been thought before, as well as all that which can be thought hereafter. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z The whole might be surveyed as a structure of connected syllogisms. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z When this is reduced to the form of a syllogism, it stands thus: Every effect has a cause; a volition is an effect; and, therefore, a volition has a cause. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z After all, as Martinez said, we must even be content with what we have, whether it be censers or syllogisms, or both. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Such interrogatories and replies generate the expository syllogism. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z “I replied: ‘This is no true syllogism; it shifts from general to particular, and so has four terms.’ The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z Newman says teach men to shoot around corners and then you may hope to convert them by means of syllogisms. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z His name has been preserved chiefly by some celebrated, though false and captious, syllogisms of which he was the reputed author. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z That is what is called a perfect syllogism, and in Chapter IV, which he calls Hit or Miss, Lewis Carroll has collected a hundred examples containing the two Premisses which need the Conclusion. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z A syllogism is made up of collective and single facts. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z “The old man answered: ‘I could make syllogisms before you were born.’ The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z Feed a sinner on syllogisms and you can transform him into a saint. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z This was induction, but bad induction: just as a vicious syllogism is reasoning, but bad reasoning. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z Among Fallacies of Ratiocination are to be ranked in the first place, all the cases of vicious syllogism laid down in the books. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z The whole syllogism then stands thus:— We must cherish whatever is the stay of virtue, Self-respect is the stay of virtue, therefore We must cherish self-respect. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z In point of fact the full formal statement of a syllogism is rare, especially in rhetorical language, when the deliberate omission of one of the premises has a dramatic effect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Then for much tobacco, the disjunctive hypothetical syllogism and the strict rigour of the game. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z When the middleterm is the predicate in both premises, the syllogism belongs to the second figure; when it is the subject in both, to the third. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z These generally resolve themselves into having more than three terms to the syllogism, either avowedly, or in the covert mode of an undistributed middleterm, or an illicit process of one of the two extremes. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z When syllogism answered syllogism, uncertainty reigned absolute—but now that the appeal is to facts, we can, wherever facts can be had, weigh or number them, and decide on one side or the other. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The error of the syllogism is patent; the conclusion does not follow, and is wrongly deduced from the premises. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z My poor relation may beat me in the matter of sensation; but I am quite confident that, when style and syllogisms are to be dealt with, he is nowhere. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z We review our syllogistic as well as our inductive processes, and recognise that they have been correctly performed; but logicians do not add a third premise to the syllogism, to express this act of recognition. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z In these matters, scorn is more powerful than syllogisms. Best Weapon Against Honor Killers: Shame 2010-09-25T03:37:00Z What the standard of physical certainty is to facts, what axioms are to science, such is induction to syllogisms—it is the test of their correctness. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Techies were making the syllogism, if you put new technology into an existing situation, and new behaviour happens, then that technology caused the behaviour. Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform' 2010-07-05T07:00:00Z That logic leads right to preservation, but it’s a faulty syllogism. Reservations About Landmark Preservation 2010-05-11T10:54:00Z The syllogism not the type of reasoning, but a test of it 218 6. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z Yet it failed to give equal passion to the second half of its "New Labour: New Britain" syllogism. Brown is hoist by his own petard, but cannot admit it 2010-04-08T20:03:00Z Stepping by 'illative conversion,' 'six rules to be observed with respect to categorical syllogism' next demand attention, followed hard by eleven moods which can be used in a legitimate syllogism, Viz.—— A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The five-membered syllogism is here employed, because so long as we deal with the illusory order of things, the teaching of the Naiyáyikas may be accepted. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy The first adumbration was forced upon him in the former work by his theory of opposition; the complete appearance in the latter work by his theory of syllogism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The conclusion being false and the syllogism correct, the premises cannot be true. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z Accordingly, the expositors of religious metaphysics, Ghazālī included, are the enemies of true religion, because they make it a mere matter of syllogism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" There is the inefficiency of the syllogism, and also the vitiation produced by its employment. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z This is assenting to the premiss, inferentia, and thing inferred, all at once;—we assent to the whole syllogism, and to its component parts. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Because the crossing of terms in a syllogism requires it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Though a syllogism framed according to any of these formul� is a valid argument, all correct ratiocination admits of being stated in syllogisms of the first figure alone. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z He sometimes resorted to syllogism with great effect. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution In this syllogism from Aristotle, there is the usual compliance with accredited rules, and the same defiance of common sense. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude; first shoot round corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent It is not necessary in every proposition, but it is necessary in the arrangement of a syllogism, to extricate the terms of its propositions from the copula; e.g. mortal—man—Socrates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" We have already observed that the syllogism, in the ordinary course of our reasoning, is only the latter half of the process of travelling from premises to a conclusion. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z If the error is in the form of an argument, he who wishes to destroy the error must do so by showing that the laws of the syllogism have been transgressed. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. It is not contended now that we discover new truths by the syllogism. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z When the analysis is carried out fully and put into form, it becomes the Aristotelic syllogism. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent As he says at the end of the Sophistical Elenchi on the syllogism, he had no predecessor, but took pains and laboured a long time in investigating it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The work of drawing them is then that of applying the formul�; and the rules of syllogism are a system of securities for the correctness of the application. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z He there says: "It is possible to obtain what is the right result from a syllogism, which is incorrect, but not by an argument which is right, for the middle term is wrong." Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. We therefore no longer look to the syllogism to discover truth, its value is in stating it. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Such a syllogism proves nothing about the veritable Elias, except in the way of antecedent probability. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent He may have laid out the sequence of syllogisms from the Analytics onwards; but how about the Categories and the De Interpretatione? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" General propositions are a record of such inferences, and the rules of the syllogism are rules for the interpretation of the record 214 5. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z Technical terms of the conditional syllogism, constructive and destructive. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. We easily arrive at this point of examination by the questions we have proposed for use in the test of syllogism. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z There are those, who, arguing à priori, maintain, that, since experience leads by syllogism only to probabilities, certitude is ever a mistake. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent In acquiring scientific knowledge, syllogism cannot start from universals without induction, nor induction acquire universals without sense. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" By some, indeed, these previous topics were professedly introduced only on account of their connexion with reasoning, and as a preparation for the doctrine and rules of the syllogism. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z You coming from a metropolitan university will try to infect the world with your syllogisms. Sinister Street, vol. 2 No false syllogism, says Biennan, can resist the inductive process of sifting particulars. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z But whether or not the fourth figure of the syllogism has any value is still a matter open to dispute. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy At the same time, there are three species of syllogism, scientific, dialectical and eristical or sophistical; and in consequence there are different ways of acquiring premisses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" It is universally allowed that a syllogism is vicious if there be anything more in the conclusion than was assumed in the premises. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z "Oh, yes," he cried, "you would defend her with a syllogism, draw your major and minor premises upon the insulter, and vanquish the lady's foes before a full meeting of the Sorbonne!" The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The strength and weakness of the syllogism as an instrument of reasoning will now be understood. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The categorical syllogism is the fundamental type of reasoning, to which every other form of deduction can be reduced. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Hence, as science and dialectic are different, so scientific induction and syllogism must be distinguished from dialectical induction and syllogism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" This type of ratiocination does not claim, like the syllogism, to be conclusive, from the mere form of the expression; nor can it possibly be so. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z He had only to secure a new postulate: the rest of the syllogism followed as a matter of course. Thirty Just as in a syllogism we show that a part is contained in the whole, so in induction we show that a part is illustrated by the whole. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The fourth figure of the syllogism is not recognized by Aristotle; and he dealt only with categorical syllogisms, and does not treat conditional syllogisms. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy “Which dark syllogism I quite grasp, and fully appreciate—at its proper value,” she returned. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance When we had to select a computer man, we just gave a battery of tests to successful computer men—structural vision, vocabulary, tri-dimensional memory, ink-blots, syllogisms, practically everything. The Merchants of Venus The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while, methought, the one in pepper-and-salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. International Short Stories American Dr. Whately exhibits the following instance of a regularly expressed syllogism:— Every dispensation of Providence is beneficial: Afflictions are dispensations of Providence, Therefore, they are beneficial. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Now the conclusion of a syllogism follows from the premises, that is, the premises come first, the conclusion second. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Whately defined it as “a conditional syllogism with two or more antecedents in the major and a disjunctive minor.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The philosophy which it had inherited was one of dogmatism, sophistical in that it made its own syllogisms the final limit and bound of truth. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 We now condense the whole argument into its briefest form, in the following syllogisms. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery Of such a syllogism as the one quoted— No predacious animals are ruminant, The lion is predacious, therefore The lion is not ruminant. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Oh, never may the partner of my bed With subtleties of logic stuff her head; Nor whirl her rapid syllogisms round, Nor with imperfect enthymemes confound. Roman Women In the first eight lines the thought ascends to a climax; this part of the sonnet may be said to contain the premises of the poetical syllogism. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History This illogical prejudice was based on a bad syllogism of this kind:— Girls speak French, and learn music and drawing. The Intellectual Life "Now give him your syllogism, Kenzie," he said quietly, "so we can all get back to work." The Kenzie Report A syllogism is a peculiar form of expression, in which every argument may be stated. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z The major premiss in the typical syllogism is itself the inference. Rationalism This profound syllogism is the great pillar of slavery in this country. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery But having regard to the primary use of the syllogism, this was no defect, but a necessary character of the relation. Logic, Inductive and Deductive We knew the syllogism was the conclusion, the Sunday punch. The Kenzie Report The syllogism is allowed to be only a form of stating a truth. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z For the minds of those who have undergone this discipline, life becomes a pretentious and cruel syllogism, whose premises are obscure but whose conclusion is remorseless. The Forerunners To state the three parts of a syllogism is not in his way; and by implication he challenged half the major premises in vogue. Pot-Boilers Further, it would be a mistake to conclude because Aristotle's Logic, as an instrument of Dialectic, concerned itself with the syllogism of propositions rather than their truth, that it was merely an art of quibbling. Logic, Inductive and Deductive This was the usual reaction of a stranger when he first met up with Kenzie's syllogism. The Kenzie Report Formerly, one syllogism was required to be defeated by another—we now attack a fallacy by induction. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z Very learned Father, Full and plump, Open the swollen syllogism. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli His syllogism is the following:— If the Bible is a book like any other book, the Bible is to be interpreted like any other book. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford But by cogent sequence syllogism leads to proposition, and proposition to term, and term to a close study of the relations between words and thoughts and things. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Such a syllogism, I repeat, would be in proper form, and the inference satisfactory. The Ethnology of the British Islands But fallacies of Ratiocination properly lie in syllogisms. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic How this was forced into a syllogism does not appear; but still the conclusion ran, “We can see better through one pair than two, therefore all perspectives are fallacious!” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors We pass to the conclusion of a syllogism, not from each term, but from a comparison of the premises—and this requires an intellectual operation entirely distinct from a mere apprehension of the terms. The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science How do we know that the nineteen moods are the only possible forms of valid syllogism? Logic, Inductive and Deductive “Confound the fellow! he’s a walking apothegm—as consequential as a syllogism!” muttered Harry; “but come now, Frank, let us have the inexpressive she, without backing and filling any longer.” Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative Thus the inference is completed in the major premiss; and the rest of the syllogism serves only to decipher, as it were, our own notes. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic One proposition for sense, And t’other for convenience, will make a tolerable syllogism for a logician in despair. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors But as yet he had only glimpses of a logical method which should invigorate the syllogism by the co-operation of ancient geometry and modern algebra. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Canon I. In every syllogism there should be three, and not more than three, terms, and the terms must be used throughout in the same sense. Logic, Inductive and Deductive While he introduced the formal syllogism in logic, he also introduced the inductive method. History of Human Society But syllogisms in the other figures can be reduced to the first by conversion. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic By a strong expression, a perturbed countenance, floods of tears, an insult which his conscience obliges him 96 to swallow, he is brought round to knowledge which no syllogism would have conveyed to him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Brougham’s speech on the Russian Loan everybody agrees to have been super-excellent—‘a continued syllogism from the beginning to the end.’ The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Well begun is half done: in undertaking the examination of any argument from authority, a formal syllogism is a good beginning. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The same error often occurs in arguments or syllogisms. How to Study But as this is itself syllogistic, it is useless, as a proof of a syllogism, against a man who denies the validity of this kind of reasoning process itself. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic There was the classic syllogism: All men are mortal; I am a man; therefore, I am mortal. Dead Ringer Not the objects, I am persuaded, of the Understanding; and yet we take as strong Impressions of them as if we could compare and assort them in a syllogism. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Perhaps too they wasted their strength in applying it to the artificial syllogistic forms, which men do not ordinarily encounter except in the manipulation of syllogisms. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Alas, this is but a fallacy, the discovery whereof solves the force of the whole syllogism. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts For any induction can be turned into a syllogism by supplying a major premiss, viz. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic The Cogito ergo Sum is irresistible, because indubitable; but Cogito ergo Deus est is a sentence requiring much consideration, and upon the face of it is no syllogism, but, on the contrary, is illogical. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." They have a syllogism which covers the case completely, as follows:— All things are in the power of the gods. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The rule that in every syllogism there must be three, and only three, propositions, sometimes given as a separate Canon, is only a corollary from Canon I. Canon II. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Then out they bring their syllogisms, their majors, their minors, conclusions, corollaries, suppositions, and distinctions, that will sooner terrify the congregation into an amazement, than persuade them into a conviction. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Maimon was delighted with his new treasure—such mathematical exposition, such serried syllogisms—till it came to theology. Dreamers of the Ghetto After that, it was but a step to palming off on his reason the monstrous syllogism that because Alison was unworthy, and Alison was a woman, therefore all women were unworthy. Audrey Craven Hence, in the above syllogism the certainty cannot be of faith, but human and moral only. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise It is the peculiar form of logical analysis that is the distinction of the syllogism. Logic, Inductive and Deductive He at first proposed to him several syllogisms, to which he easily replied; he then proposed others, that were more difficult. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. No; he sees no such spiritual proof as this, but a merely logical one, expressed almost in the form of a syllogism. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors If you could not answer him in syllogisms, he conceived that you must be, evidently to yourself, in the wrong, and that obstinacy alone prevented you from owning it. The Macdermots of Ballycloran The old logicians, said Maxwell, recognised four forms of syllogism. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice The arguments given in text-books to be cast into syllogistic form, consist only as a rule of relevant propositions, but they are not yet formal syllogisms. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Such a faculty, as it reaches sound results without employing explicit definitions and syllogisms and inductive processes, sometimes inclines its possessors to look down too contemptuously upon the closet student. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies If so, then the syllogism is valid; but not otherwise. Symbolic Logic He relied in all such arguments on his power of proving logically that his own church was the true church, and as his education had been logical, he put all his arguments into syllogisms. The Macdermots of Ballycloran This is the comment upon a passage where he has twisted his thoughts into a cumbrous and perfectly needless syllogism. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice A Disjunctive Syllogism is a syllogism in which the Major Premiss is a Disjunctive Proposition, i.e., one in which two propositions are declared to be mutually incompatible. Logic, Inductive and Deductive All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Take, as an example, a syllogism in Darapti:— ‘All M is P, All M is S, ∴ Some S is P.’ Symbolic Logic There are others whose spontaneous thoughts move by informal syllogisms. The History of Dartmouth College A statement of these qualities, he says, will form the major of his syllogism. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice This is undeniable if we take this syllogism purely as an argumentative syllogism. Logic, Inductive and Deductive But such syllogisms may always be stated in the form of a hypothesis. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Let us reduce this argument to a syllogism, and it will stand thus: Whatever God sanctioned among the Hebrews he sanctions for all men and at all times. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It is rarely the case in literature that the syllogism is fully stated: generally one of the premises is omitted. English: Composition and Literature Coined words used in logic to designate certain valid forms of syllogism. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning There is a valid syllogism between the extremes when the relations of the three terms are as stated in certain premisses of the Fourth Figure. Logic, Inductive and Deductive In logic the works of St. Augustine were used in the exercises of constructing syllogisms, of disputation, and of definition. History of Education For this it is essential that we should read the record correctly: and the rules of the syllogism are a set of precautions to insure our doing so. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive A third error in a syllogism is in the premises themselves. English: Composition and Literature It bristles with incongruity and contradiction, yet it is as logical as a syllogism. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 The modality may be treated as part of the predicate without in any way obscuring what it is the design of the syllogism to make clear. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Add to this that the logic of Aristotle and the syllogism was the universal method of presentation and the monotony and wearisomeness becomes evident. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy We have already observed that the syllogism, in the ordinary course of our reasoning, is only the latter half of the process of traveling from premises to a conclusion. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The second part is then one great syllogism, the premises of which are established by ample proof, the conclusion of which cannot well be disputed. English: Composition and Literature Thou hast no pity, For pity shapes not into syllogisms; Nor can affection ape philosophy, Nor natural love put on the formal robe Of cold too-balanced State-craft. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts In the narrowest sense, it is a valid formal syllogism, with one premiss suppressed. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Then he progresses further and learns to make premises and construct syllogisms and argue from the known to the unknown. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy The conclusion being false and the syllogism correct, the premises can not be true. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive In every syllogism there are three terms,—major, minor, and middle. English: Composition and Literature Why, then, such a flourish of trumpets over some new trick in playing with syllogism, when the whole thing is utterly worthless? Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 Thus, a full syllogism being:— All liars are cowards: Caius is a liar: ... Logic, Inductive and Deductive One has to wade through pages upon pages of bare syllogisms, one more flimsy than another. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy By some, indeed, these previous topics were professedly introduced only on account of their connection with reasoning, and as a preparation for the doctrine and rules of the syllogism. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive It will be of value, however, to call attention to a few of the commonest errors in syllogisms. English: Composition and Literature The act of recognition is a subsumption of the object under a class by use of the second figure of the syllogism. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 He used syllogism, in fact, in the same loose sense in which we use the words reasoning and argument, applying without distinction of good and bad. Logic, Inductive and Deductive As becomes a nominalist, he attacks the syllogism upon grounds more fully brought out by J. S. Mill. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. This phraseology, which is of great service in stating and demonstrating the rules of the syllogism, enables us to express very concisely the definitions of a universal and a particular proposition. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive If the major premise of this syllogism be granted, the conclusion is unquestionable. English: Composition and Literature Is it possible to distinguish an elephant from a tin can by any other method than the syllogism? Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 For purposes of persuasion enthymemes are better than explicit syllogisms, because any inconclusiveness there may be in the argument is more likely to pass undetected. Logic, Inductive and Deductive It were easier to satisfy the cravings of hunger by logical syllogisms, 106 than to satisfy the yearnings of the human heart without religion. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles When, as in this last syllogism, the conclusion is a proposition respecting an idea, the assumption on which it depends may be merely that of the existence of an idea. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive However, if this were put into a syllogism, it would read as follows: All persons who do wrong pay the penalty soon. English: Composition and Literature In syllogism do we live and move, and have our being. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 But when common-sense has done this, it has exhibited the argument in a series of syllogisms. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The major premise of this syllogism is a fact of observation. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles But suppose the syllogism to be the following: All arsenic is poisonous, the substance which is before me is arsenic, therefore it is poisonous. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive If this were reduced to a syllogism, it would not be a discussion of whether George Eliot be a poet, but rather a discussion of what is a poet. English: Composition and Literature The act of recognition is an unconscious syllogistic process in the second figure of the syllogism. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 The word syllogism in this connexion is a little puzzling. Logic, Inductive and Deductive In the former case the minor premise of the Theistic syllogism is utterly invalidated; in the latter case it is abundantly sustained. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles He would even, to use his own expression, banish them entirely from the syllogism. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The conclusions arrived at by means of syllogisms are irresistible, provided the form be correct and the premises be true. English: Composition and Literature Let Prof. Harris consummate this great work either by syllogism or by “participation.” Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 But it is plain from the examples he gives that he meant here by syllogism not even a correct reasoning, much less a reasoning in the explicit form of three terms and three propositions. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The à posteriori, or empirical knowledge of the phenomena of the universe, in their relations to time and space, constitute the minor premise of the Theistic syllogism. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles These generally resolve themselves into having more than three terms to the syllogism, either avowedly, or in the covert mode of an undistributed middle term, or an illicit process of one of the two extremes. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive It is impossible here to discuss the forms of syllogisms; they are too many. English: Composition and Literature They have an endless future feast in the syllogisms, if they are faithful followers of Prof. Harris. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 The syllogism was conceived by Aristotle as a reasoning together of terms. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Hitherto the mode of demonstration had been by the syllogism; but the syllogism is, in many respects, an incompetent weapon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" But the example in this form does not do justice to the syllogism of singulars. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The gist of the whole matter reduces to a simple syllogism. Doctor Jones' Picnic When I laughed and told him to recast his syllogism—told him that I had never seen the article in question, and doubted whether my friend had—matters became very bright between us. Old Familiar Faces It is still, strictly speaking, a syllogism of terms: of propositions only secondarily and after they have been analysed. Logic, Inductive and Deductive I do not propose to give up the syllogism altogether. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" In no way, therefore, can a syllogism with two singular premises be viewed as a genuine syllogistic or deductive inference.” A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive If he will make anything of his syllogism he must hold at one of these two senses. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) The thought of that day in syllogism would run as follows: The work of the Old Masters in its composition is beyond reproach. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures There is a brilliant defence of the syllogism as an analysis of arguments in the Westminster Review for January, 1828. Logic, Inductive and Deductive For a syllogism consists of propositions, propositions of words, and words are the symbols of notions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" In every syllogism the conclusion contains less than is asserted in the two premises taken together. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Is it an error in divinity to make a syllogism with four terms?” The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Without stopping to prove my syllogism, I seized my commentary, and with a head and a great-coat pocket full of my immortal labours, called once more in Portland-place. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 They did not handle the truths of Christianity as if they should or could be proved by the syllogisms of our human reasoning. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities When the middleterm is the predicate in both premisses, the syllogism belongs to the second figure; when it is the subject in both, to the third. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) But I can not find that Berkeley saw the implication, or had ever asked himself what bearing his argument had on the theory of the syllogism. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The truth is, his syllogism hath quatuor terminos, and is therefore worthy to be exploded by all that know the laws of disputation. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) A man seems to be the natural or wild form of the syllogism, which this world has tacitly agreed to adopt. The Lost Art of Reading The question, which we are considering—namely, whether to be deaf, is a happiness or not—should be treated in the Socratic method, and the whole reasoning reduced to the simplest syllogisms.” Happy-Thought Hall Although a syllogism framed according to any of these formulæ is a valid argument, all correct ratiocination admits of being stated in syllogisms of the first figure alone. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) Though a syllogism framed according to any of these formulæ is a valid argument, all correct ratiocination admits of being stated in syllogisms of the first figure alone. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Now both passages are employed by him to illustrate a defective syllogism, hence are purely incidental. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary No, my dear, I do not think any such syllogism has ever occurred to her as, Lover’s look conscious; Phœbe looks conscious; therefore Phœbe is in love! Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Notwithstanding the reiterated logic of his philosophical professor at Padua, Cosmo de Medici preferred the testimony of his senses to the syllogisms of his instructor. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Applying this view of propositions to the two premisses of a syllogism, we obtain the following results. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) In a similar manner we might analyze any other example of the syllogism. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive At least that was his version of the syllogism. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Away! vain Sceptic, with the syllogisms of infidelity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 But Aristotle never got beyond the syllogism, which is a very small part of the subject, and the schoolmen never got beyond Aristotle. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays For this it is essential that we should read the record correctly: and the rules of the syllogism are a set of precautions to ensure our doing so. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) It is universally allowed that a syllogism is vicious if there be any thing more in the conclusion than was assumed in the premises. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The missing link in his chain of evidence would be the major premise in the syllogism necessary to the establishment of his political status—a definition of "Democrat" or "Republican." The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 They compressed their thoughts into a syllogism: The people with the highest civilisation and the highest culture should become dominant throughout the world. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War The most important form of inference which he defined was the syllogism, a scheme of reasoning to a conclusion by means of two premises having one term in common. The Approach to Philosophy We have already observed that the syllogism, in the ordinary course of our reasoning, is only the latter half of the process of travelling from premisses to a conclusion. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) When the middle term is the predicate in both premises, the syllogism belongs to the second figure; when it is the subject in both, to the third. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Why, if one of them were to meet a syllogism in a lonely road he would run away in a hundred and fifty directions as hard as ever he could hook it. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 In every syllogism is first a fundamental proposition; secondly, another deduced from it; and, thirdly, the consequence. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics This is an instance not only of the syllogism in general, but of its most important "mood," the subsumption of a particular case under a general rule. The Approach to Philosophy This is not safe reasoning, but it is reasoning; and the syllogism, therefore, is not the universal type of reasoning, but only a form in which it is desirable that we should reason. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) Both these premises of Mr. Spencer's syllogism I am able to assent to, but in different senses of the middle term. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive It may acquire, as Whateley's did, a certain familiarity with the syllogism as an abstraction, but of the syllogism's practical application, its real relation to the phenomena of thought, the religious mind can know nothing. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 And if any one brings before them a passage of divine Scripture, they see whether a conjunctive or a disjunctive form of syllogism can be made from it. A Source Book for Ancient Church History They speak often very slightingly of "Reasoning," the attempt to find a way to ultimate Realities by logical syllogisms, but they, nevertheless, believed great things of man's rational and moral nature. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries It is true that in a syllogism of this particular type, the petitio principii is disguised. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) They said that no discoveries were ever made by syllogism; and Dr. Whewell says, or seems to say, that none were ever made by the Four Methods of Induction. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Greece was the home of syllogism and of unreason. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre One of his biographers explains his early enthusiasm for virtue and human welfare as the conclusion of a kind of syllogism. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith: the deepest mysteries ours contains have not only been illustrated but maintained by syllogism and the rule of reason. Confessions of a Book-Lover To this, however, there is the fatal objection, that the syllogism, thus transformed, does not prove the conclusion; it wants not the form only, but the substance of proof. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) To the former objectors, Archbishop Whately very pertinently answered, that their argument, if good at all, was good against the reasoning process altogether; for whatever can not be reduced to syllogism, is not reasoning. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Her mind is not receptive of formulas or syllogisms. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It is possible that the syllogism was only the later shape into which an instinctive impulse threw itself by way of rational entrenchment. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet It is put to the individual in the following syllogism: "You believe Christ died for sinners; you are a sinner; therefore Christ died for you; and hence you are saved." Natural Law in the Spiritual World The conclusion being false and the syllogism correct, the premisses cannot be true. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) Among Fallacies of Ratiocination are to be ranked, in the first place, all the cases of vicious syllogism laid down in the books. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Well, Belle-bouche has honey lips—a beautiful idea—and bees love honey, and I love Belle-bouche: there's the syllogism, as you tiresome logicians say. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 He saves the syllogism; what becomes, in the controversy, of poor human reason itself, is not his especial concern—it is as much their business as his. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The agitated soul is invited to creep into the convolutions of a syllogism, and entrench itself behind a Doctrine more venerable even than the Church. Natural Law in the Spiritual World The whole of Euclid, for example, might be thrown without difficulty into a series of syllogisms, regular in mode and figure. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) Any thing that fails to make prominent this circumstance is not adapted as a foundation for the syllogism.” A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Garey—second only to his older comrade in the working out of a prairie syllogism—gave Rube’s statement his emphatic confirmation. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Several of our northern metaphysicians, it is well known—as, for example, Dr Campbell and Dugald Stewart—have laid rude hands upon the syllogism. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The basis of this system is the syllogism. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I It is universally allowed that a syllogism is vicious if there be anything more in the conclusion than was assumed in the premisses. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) This sort of philosophy is rather a matter of disposition than of syllogisms, rather of life than of disputation, rather of inspiration than of erudition, rather of transformation than of logic.... Erasmus and the Age of Reformation A figure in the left-hand corner has shut his eyes to think; and having, in his attempt to separate a syllogism, placed the forefinger of his right hand upon his forehead, has fallen asleep. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency That it is not the office of the syllogism to discover new truths, our logician fully admits, and takes some pains to establish. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. To which is added, with a mark of exclamation at the end, "but in analyzing the syllogism, there is a middle term, and a predicate too, in each of the lines!" A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I To the former objectors, Archbishop Whately very pertinently answered, that their argument, if good at all, was good against the reasoning process altogether; for whatever cannot be reduced to syllogism, is not reasoning. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) The divine contended with syllogisms, Erasmus with arguments of 'rhetoric'. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation "A syllogism is a word meanin' the same as another word, like as if I was to say caballo for horse or six-shooter for revolver." Oh, You Tex! It is universally allowed, that a syllogism is vicious, if there be any thing more in the conclusion than was assumed in the premisses. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. It was his pet notion that I did not understand the commonest principles of logic, that I did not always know the difference between the middle term of a syllogism and its conclusion. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I The reviewer denies that there is a petitio principii in the syllogism, or that the proposition, All men are mortal, asserts or assumes that Socrates is mortal. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) He is truly a divine who teaches, not by artful syllogisms, but by his disposition, by his face and his eyes, by his life itself, that wealth should be despised. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Spill out a lot of those syllogisms you got bottled up inside you. Oh, You Tex! The syllogism always, say they, involves a petitio principii. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Transposed.—In this syllogism the quantity in one premise is transposed into the other. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I V.—Your syllogism is perfect in its premises, but the conclusion is false. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside With few exceptions they probably admitted the logic of the then accepted syllogism,—democracy, anarchy, despotism. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American State two or three of Burke's arguments in the form of a syllogism. Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College But is the syllogism, it has been asked, this veritable type of our reasoning? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. In the first of these he considers rhetorical invention generally, supplies commonplaces for the six parts of an oration promiscuously, and gives a full analysis of the two forms of argument, syllogism and induction. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Up to a certain point, he's logical; then he gets into a seething mass of mismatched syllogisms. The Brentons “It was a syllogism,” replied the Dominie, taking the pannikin from his mouth. Jacob Faithful In logic he knew the whole family of syllogisms and dilemmas, and was so proud of his skill that he never suffered even a self-evident fact to pass unargued. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I It must be granted, that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Not once in a hundred times does any officer enter; and, if he does, he hears a syllogism or two, and then makes a bow, and departs, as he came and remained, in solemn silence. Life in the Medieval University Broken windows are repaired; lost revenues are recovered; and the sons of Crispin have evacuated chambers once more consecrated to syntax and the syllogism. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Some may suppose that they have reasoned very well during sleep; but we suspect that, if they could recollect their syllogisms, they would find them not much better than Mickle's poetry composed during sleep. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 God is to be sought, not through speculation, or syllogism, or the learning of the schools, but through the moral nature. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Nevertheless, the old topic of logic proper, or deductive reasoning, is not omitted, and the first passage to which we feel bound, on many accounts, to give our attention, is the disquisition on the syllogism. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The only addition really made by Aristotle was the systematic theory of the syllogism. A Short History of Greek Philosophy The major premiss of the syllogism which proves an action to be virtuous must be actually present to the mind of the agent. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The third is called, The Impassible, because in it the author demonstrates that the divinity neither did nor could suffer; the same is the purport of his Demonstration by syllogisms. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March But it would be wrong; our syllogism would have a badly undistributed middle. The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade And surely it is folly to ignore these discussions in the market places of the world, because they are literature, and not couched in scholastic syllogisms. My New Curate Much of our reasoning is an abbreviated form of the syllogism, and will readily expand into it. The Mind and Its Education There is a vague belief that by skilfully linking syllogisms you can form a chain sufficiently strong to cross the profoundest abyss, and which will need no test of observation250 and verification. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Besides, he wrote several treatises in logic and rhetoric himself, one on the use of the syllogism, and one on topics, and in addition a series of theological works. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages And what is true in a syllogism always necessarily presents itself to the mind, while the incomplete, which is a negative quality, an unknown value, is easily forgotten in the calculation. Sophisms of the Protectionists Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. A Preface to Politics Expanded into the syllogism form it would be, "Lightning in the west is a sure sign of rain; there is lightning in the west this evening; therefore, it will rain tonight." The Mind and Its Education "On the contrary, it is the conclusion of a valid syllogism which I will explain to you if you have time." The Blue Pavilions It is sufficient to introduce hypotheses, premises, or syllogisms, when there are ends to be attained by such a course. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Deep study of the protective system has revealed to us this syllogism, on which it entirely rests: The more one labors, the richer one is. Sophisms of the Protectionists For all the light and shadow of sentiment and passion play even about the syllogism. A Preface to Politics While we do not commonly think in complete syllogisms, it is often convenient to cast our reasoning in this form to test its validity. The Mind and Its Education But a pundit passing by, said: His meditation can be of nothing but the syllogism and its members. Bubbles of the Foam The parts of logic which he treated with most minuteness are modal propositions and modal syllogisms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" In the region of the unknown and unknowable, logic-chopping has its perils; and in the present case all our doubts would seem to arise from another hazardous syllogism. The Buried Temple Then followed interminable syllogisms, of which Campion would not accept the premises; and no real progress was made. By What Authority? Induction.—Deduction is a valuable form of reasoning, but a moment's reflection will show that something must precede the syllogism in our reasoning. The Mind and Its Education One is not at all pleased when poetry, or eloquence, or devotion, is considered as if chiefly intended to feed syllogisms. Apologia pro Vita Sua A jest is not infrequently more potent than any syllogism. A Hero and Some Other Folks This is the syllogism which has dignified the foregoing collection of occurrences into grave symptoms of an increase of popular despotism. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 The thing began as a vision, not as a syllogism. A Book of Prefaces Reasoning: Nature of reasoning—How judgments function in reasoning—Deduction and the syllogism—Induction—The necessity for broad induction—The interrelation of induction and deduction. The Mind and Its Education When this was done, the syllogism would be found to take this very simple form:— The ratio of the circumference to the diameter is the same in all circles. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer He found arguments and syllogisms enough to defend his cause; and he dismissed the ambassadors without coming to any conclusion. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary Hence, an objector to the above syllogism need not be a materialist; it is not even necessary that he should hold any theory of things at all. A Candid Examination of Theism The first-rate man seldom has any impulse to record and philosophise; his impulse is to act; life, to him, is an adventure, not a syllogism or an autopsy. Damn! A Book of Calumny I exclaim, if any man attempts to fling dust in my eyes by false syllogism, or any mode of dialectic sophism. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg He merely altered the premisses of a syllogism. Gibbon Plain people may rest satisfied that both hypotheses are unintelligible, without plunging any further among syllogisms, the premisses of which convey no meaning, while the conclusions carry no conviction. Hume (English Men of Letters Series) In the mouths of his professional fools he places many reductions to absurdity of what he calls the "simple syllogism." Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays One doesn't, at that age, reason things out; one knows them, and is dumb, though unconvinced, before powerful syllogisms to the contrary. Lore of Proserpine Hereupon the subtle visitor resumed: "Come, Fra Giovanni, let us argue it out both of us according to the rules of syllogism." The Well of Saint Clare This world will be little helped by the most irrefutable syllogism concerning the peculiar nature and separate exclusive divinity of its great religious Teacher. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals I suppose that if one had given only six months to teaching Pilate the truths of logic, he would assuredly have made this conclusive syllogism. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary The intuition has its rights as well as the syllogism, and will always ultimately assert them. Nature Mysticism He must first prove the premises of his arguments to be correct, namely, 'that spirituous liquors are conducive to the happiness of mankind'—otherwise, the syllogism must be false. The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. The syllogism is valuable, therefore, because it displays fully and clearly each element in the reasoning process, and thus assures the validity of the conclusion. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education The heart of the universe asks not that we be consistent with the syllogisms of the past, but that we be true to the truth we know ourselves. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals It is true that in what has been called the "numerically definite syllogism," an inference may be drawn, though our canon seems to be violated. Logic Deductive and Inductive No. Can God be demonstrated à priori by syllogisms? The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism But, in practical matters, it is the reason that forms syllogisms. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Expressed in this form, the reasoning process, as already mentioned, is known as a syllogism. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Hymns bring back hallowed memories; a strain of song will touch a chord no syllogism could sound; the simple words of an old hymn bring comfort and new hope to hearts broken and crushed. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals But, again, he says that the ground of the syllogism is Induction; that man is mortal is an induction. Logic Deductive and Inductive For reason in contingent matters may follow opposite courses, as we see in dialectic syllogisms and rhetorical arguments. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Hence that which is the conclusion of a practical syllogism, is the matter of choice. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition The three concepts involved in the syllogism are known as the major, the minor, and the middle term. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education This, however, has little to do with the logic of the syllogism, and not much with any logic. Practical Essays A second advantage of the syllogism is, that it makes us fully aware of what an inference implies. Logic Deductive and Inductive Nevertheless, he understands the composition and the division of enunciations, just as he apprehends the reasoning of syllogisms: for he understands simply, such things as are composite, things movable immovably, and material things immaterially. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Secondly, on the part of the process of reasoning; forasmuch as a sophistical syllogism is contrary to a dialectic or demonstrative syllogism. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Here the middle term of the syllogism seems to disappear. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Deductive reasoning has a regular form called the syllogism. Public Speaking Whence the same conclusion follows; and the whole syllogism plainly conforms directly to the Dictum. Logic Deductive and Inductive Such is that syllogism of the physical sciences which is now supposed to be so invincible against all religion, and which has already gone so far towards destroying the world's faith in it. Is Life Worth Living? Now the whole force of a demonstration, which is "a syllogism producing science," as stated in Poster. i, text. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition My client is innocent because it was a dark night when they say he stole the mule and that's against all laws of syllogism. Three Plays Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing Quite as frequently the incorrect syllogism is of this kind. Public Speaking But science aims at unifying knowledge; and after reducing all possible arguments that form categorical syllogisms to the nineteen Moods, it is another step in the same direction to reduce these Moods to one form. Logic Deductive and Inductive Therefore there is more evil than good in all God's work. answer I deny the major and the minor of this conditional syllogism. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Now even the speculative reason employs the dialectic syllogism for the sake of argument, just as it employs the demonstrative syllogism. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Not so much by any above-board play of syllogism as by some underhand cheating of consciousness, do the accumulating experiences of life and of thought slowly enrich the judgement. Thoughts on Religion In the bald, simple forms here set down, the syllogism and enthymeme are hardly suited to delivery in speeches. Public Speaking Euler's diagrams are used to illustrate the syllogism, though not very satisfactorily, thus: Fig. Logic Deductive and Inductive Therefore, etc. answer I deny the major of this syllogism. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Therefore as science, which is the result of a demonstrative syllogism, is set down as an intellectual virtue, so also should opinion be. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition I am perfectly convinced," said Harrington, "that the modern spiritualist will not bring his 'faith' into any ignominious slavery to intellect or syllogism. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Assuming the fact, that the earth has been created in time, and consequently the dogma of final causes, we yield, of course, to this short syllogism. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Sometimes a full style, like Macaulay's, may, by means of amplification and illustration, spread the elements of a single syllogism over several pages—a pennyworth of logic steeped in so much eloquence. Logic Deductive and Inductive Sir R. And yet I could never teach you a syllogism. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Even so, in speculative matters the understanding of principles is the foundation on which the syllogism of the reason is based. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Its divine beauty is all the brighter, when happily divorced from logic and syllogisms, its misalliance with which can only be compared to that cruel punishment by which the living was chained to the dead. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic The conclusion deduced from a logical syllogism depends for its truth on the two premises assumed, and it is the same in mathematics. Amusements in Mathematics A valid syllogism guarantees the truth of its conclusion, provided the premises be true: but what of the premises? Logic Deductive and Inductive There are occasions when thought is terribly and comprehensively sudden: the rudimentary processes of reasoning, by analogy and syllogism, so slow and so laborious, turn to divination. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Now actions are about singulars: wherefore the conclusion of a practical syllogism is a singular proposition. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition What then is the line of the syllogism? Unity of Good "To the philosopher," wrote Max Müller, "the existence of God may seem to rest on a syllogism; in the eyes of the historian it rests on the whole evolution of human thought." Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking The relation between the premises of a valid syllogism and its conclusion is the same as the relation between the antecedent and consequent of a hypothetical proposition. Logic Deductive and Inductive This gives us the theory of the syllogism; it is a part of logic in which the mathematician is apt to feel very much at home. An Introduction to Philosophy With regard to the speculative reason, this is first of all the definition; secondly, the proposition; thirdly, the syllogism or argument. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith; the deepest mysteries ours contains, have not only been illustrated, but maintained by syllogism, and the rule of reason. Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Why, if one of them were to meet a syllogism in a lonely road he would run away in a hundred and fifty directions as hard as ever he could hoof it. A Cynic Looks at Life If A is B, C is D: grant that A is B, and it follows that C is D; and, similarly, grant the premises of a syllogism, and the conclusion follows. Logic Deductive and Inductive Let a well-jointed syllogism underlie and form the framework of your sermon. The Young Priest's Keepsake The tormenting syllogism ran continually through his head: "She is the prettiest woman in the world—rich fellows like pretty women,—therefore—death and curses on him!" The Bread-winners A Social Study The syllogism is complete, and old as it is it is still true. The Art of Public Speaking I said that his question was but the major promise of a fallacious Christian Science syllogism. The Turtles of Tasman The use of syllogisms therefore tends to strengthen our reasonings. Logic Deductive and Inductive The conclusion of that syllogism must be the goal point at which you aim. The Young Priest's Keepsake The devotion to the child is "the inevitable conclusion of the two premises of the practical syllogism, the devotion of man to woman." The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets B. This is very serious; the more so, from the syllogism being so admirably formed. Essays on Political Economy There was never perhaps a more extraordinary syllogism since the argal of Shakespeare’s gravedigger. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Take an apparent syllogism subject to the fallacy of negative premises, and inquire whether you can correct the reasoning by converting one or both of the premises into the affirmative form. Logic Deductive and Inductive All that I admit, but age and experience will teach him that logic does not rule the world; some of its greatest actions could not bear the pressure of a syllogism. The Young Priest's Keepsake He is of opinion, that as in Logic the rules of syllogism are chiefly to be attended to, so in Physics the enquiry into the nature and functions of the soul is of most importance. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works This discourse of mine is based on a syllogism. 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