syllogistical

I leave this subject, to take notice of one manifest mistake in the rules of syllogism: viz. that no syllogistical reasoning can be right and conclusive, but what has at least one general proposition in it.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

Where the corrupt philosophy, or sophistical arguings, or, indeed, regular syllogistical proceedings, of the adversaries, have rendered a more close, logical way of proceeding necessary, I hope your favourable judgments will not find cause to complain of the want thereof.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

The introduction of this assertion by ara oun, the note of a syllogistical inference, declares what is here asserted to be the substance of the truth pleaded for.

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

And while they play the fool at this rate in their schools, they make account the universal church would otherwise perish, unless, as the poets fancied of Atlas that he supported heaven with his shoulders, they underpropped the other with their syllogistical buttresses.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration.

Of the academical or sceptical Philosophy. Part III 1909

It cannot be denied, however, that the problems were cleverly put, and the whole of these syllogistical dialectics formed an excellent course of training.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

I owe my lucidity of mind, more especially what skill I possess in dividing my subject (which is an art of capital importance, one of the conditions of the art of writing), to my divinity training, and in particular to geometry, which is the truest application of the syllogistical method.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

Nature is too strong, to be prevailed on to retire, and give way to the authority of definitions and syllogistical deduction.

Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831

It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume 1743