Baroko

English

Etymology

From a mediaeval mnemonic chant.

Proper noun

Baroko

1. (logic, obsolete) A form or mode of syllogism in which the first proposition is a universal affirmative and the other two are particular negative.
   • 1847, Augustus De Morgan, Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable (page 132)

     The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase […]

   • 1870, William Dexter Wilson, An elementary treatise on logic (page 129)

     But this Conclusion is false, consequently the Minor Premise of the first Syllogism, Baroko, its contradictory, is true.

   • 2005, Charles Gray Shaw, Logic in Theory and Practice (page 161)

     The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo.

See also

• Bokardo

References

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