Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is skilled in syllogistic reasoning.
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- noun logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning
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Examples
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Though Buckley is hardly a logician, he is – at his level – a kind of syllogist, and this is what I think, he is trying to say: If liberals think faggotry okay and I call one of them a faggot, why is that wrong in their eyes since there is nothing wrong in being one?
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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"So called from the syllogist himself, doubtless;" said Mohi, stroking his beard.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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A wager of twenty guineas will at any time overthrow and confute all the logic of the most able syllogist, who has not got a shilling in his pocket.”
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A wager of twenty guineas will at any time overthrow and confute all the logic of the most able syllogist, who has not got a shilling in his pocket. "
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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