Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a syllogistic manner; in the form of a syllogism; by means of syllogisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a syllogistic manner.
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- adverb In a
syllogistic way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A lawyer ignores feelings at her peril, and law school had been teaching us all to be the "reasonable man," to think syllogistically and to look for every intellectual solution to a problem -- but to ignore feelings or to "put them aside."
Saving Clients From The Death Penalty Andrea D. Lyon 2010
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Therefore, syllogistically if not enthymematically, "subjectivity" which is "NOT objectivity" must be UN-objective.
The View From Everywhere: Impartiality, Objectivity and Other Ideals James F. McGrath 2009
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There are various mental processes (compounding ideas, forming propositions, reasoning syllogistically) that we can describe without knowing that reasoning is computation.
Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009
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Speaking syllogistically, neither of these two conclusions logically follow, unless you have evidence.
Answering a request Steven Barnes 2008
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A man knows first, and then he is able to prove syllogistically.
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He affirmed his significance as a conscious rational animal proceeding syllogistically from the known to the unknown and a conscious rational reagent between a micro and a macrocosm ineluctably constructed upon the incertitude of the void.
Ulysses 2003
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But the fact that I think immigration is a positive force for the economy in no way, syllogistically does it follow, that I believe illegal aliens are -- I'm stunned you would suggest that.
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For all who effect an argument per impossibile infer syllogistically what is false, and prove the original conclusion hypothetically when something impossible results from the assumption of its contradictory; e.g. that the diagonal of the square is incommensurate with the side, because odd numbers are equal to evens if it is supposed to be commensurate.
Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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Again if it is necessary that animal should exist, if man does, and that substance should exist, if animal does, it is necessary that substance should exist if man does: but as yet the conclusion has not been drawn syllogistically: for the premisses are not in the shape we required.
Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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But this will make no difference to the production of a syllogism in either case; for both the demonstrator and the dialectician argue syllogistically after stating that something does or does not belong to something else.
Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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