syllogism

English

Etymology

From Old French silogisme (“syllogism”), from Latin syllogismus, from Ancient Greek συλλογισμός (sullogismós, “inference, conclusion”). Doublet of syllogismus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlədʒɪz(ə)m/

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Noun

Examples (logic)
All humans are mortal. Socrates is a human. Therefore Socrates is mortal.

syllogism (plural syllogisms)

1. (logic) An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion.

   Meronyms: major premise, minor premise

   • 2006, Richard Dien Winfield, From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic‎^[1], Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 107:

     Ever since Aristotle, syllogism has occupied a central place in logic and cast a fateful shadow upon the power of reason. Recognized to be the great conveyor of rationality, allowing reason to reach conclusions of unparalleled universality and necessity, syllogism has equally been acknowledged to be beset by limits.

2. (obsolete) A trick, artifice; an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument; a sophism.

Derived terms

• disjunctive syllogism
• horned syllogism
• pro-syllogism
• pseudosyllogism

Related terms

• syllogismus

Translations

inference from premises

• Armenian: սիլլոգիզմ (hy) (sillogizm), հետևաբանություն (hy) (hetewabanutʻyun)
• Catalan: sil·logisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直言三段論 / 直言三段论 (zhíyánsānduànlùn)

• Czech: sylogismus m
• Danish: syllogisme (da) c
• Dutch: syllogisme (nl) n, sluitrede f
• Finnish: syllogismi (fi)
• French: syllogisme (fr) m
• German: Syllogismus (de) m
• Greek: συλλογισμός (el) m (syllogismós)

  Ancient: συλλογισμός m (sullogismós)

• Hebrew: סילוגיזם m (silogizm), היקש (he) m (hekésh)
• Hindi: न्यायवाक्य (nyāyvākya)
• Hungarian: szillogizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: rökhenda f
• Ido: silogismo (io)
• Interlingua: syllogismo
• Irish: siollóg f
• Italian: sillogismo (it) m
• Japanese: 三段論法 (さんだんろんぽう, sandanronpō)
• Korean: 삼단논법(三段論法) (ko) (samdannonbeop)
• Occitan: sillogisme m
• Polish: sylogizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: silogismo (pt) m
• Romanian: silogism (ro) n
• Russian: силлоги́зм (ru) m (sillogízm)
• Scottish Gaelic: argainn-iomlan f
• Slovak: sylogizmus m
• Spanish: silogismo (es) m
• Swedish: syllogism (sv) c, slutledning (sv)
• Tagalog: sangmatwiran

See also

• enthymeme
• sorites

Further reading

• syllogism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Swedish

Noun

syllogism c

1. a syllogism

Declension

Declension of syllogism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	syllogism	syllogisms
	definite	syllogismen	syllogismens
plural	indefinite	syllogismer	syllogismers
	definite	syllogismerna	syllogismernas