syllogistic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to syllogisms or reasoning through syllogisms

   The new deduction did not fit the traditional syllogistic scheme.

2. 2
   noun

   the branch or system of logic concerned with syllogisms

   Aristotelian syllogistic classifies valid arguments by the form of their premises.

From Late Latin syllogisticus, from Ancient Greek syllogistikos, from syllogizesthai ("to infer, reason"). The root syllogismos means a reckoning or inference drawn by combining propositions.

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