SYLLOGISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syllogism mean? 

• SYLLOGISM (noun)
  The noun SYLLOGISM has 1 sense:

1. deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises

  Familiarity information: SYLLOGISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYLLOGISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("syllogism" is a kind of...):

deduction; deductive reasoning; synthesis (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))

Meronyms (parts of "syllogism"):

conclusion; ratiocination (the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism))

major premise; major premiss (the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion))

minor premise; minor premiss; subsumption (the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion))

Derivation:

syllogise (reason by syllogisms)

syllogist (logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning)

syllogistic (of or relating to or consisting of syllogism)

syllogize (reason by syllogisms)

 Context examples 

Never had he heard such jargon of scholastic philosophy, such fine-drawn distinctions, such cross-fire of major and minor, proposition, syllogism, attack and refutation.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)