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SYLLOGIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does syllogist mean?
• SYLLOGIST (noun)
The noun SYLLOGIST has 1 sense:
1. logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning
Familiarity information: SYLLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
syllogiser; syllogist; syllogizer
Hypernyms ("syllogist" is a kind of...):
logician; logistician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)
Derivation:
syllogism (deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises)
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