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...Phaedrus; the na- ture of words is analysed in the Cratylus; the form of the syllogism is indicated in the genealogical trees of the Sophist and State... ...logic any longer natural to us. W e no longer put arguments into the form of syllogisms like the schoolmen; the simple use of language has been, happi...

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...iginal inventor of any of the great logical forms, with the exception of the syllogism. There is little worthy of remark in the charac ters of the So... ... Bacon, to criticize abstract notions, might not extend his criticism to the syllogism. The saying or thinking the thing that is not, would be the pop... ...st part answers to the term, the second to the proposition, the third to the syllogism. These are the grades of thought un der which we conceive the ... ...ophist – Plato diated with the universal by the help of the par ticular. Of syllogisms there are various kinds,— qualitative, quantitative, inductive... ...eintroduc ing the forms of the old logic? Who ever thinks of the world as a syllogism? What connexion is there between the proposition and our ideas ...

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...he ultimate analysis of this deductive process; the com mon theory of the syllogism evidently throwing no light upon it. My practice (learnt from Hob... ...oubt. As little could it be doubted, that all reasoning is resolvable into syllogisms, and that in every syllogism the conclusion is actually containe... ... be the key of the whole perplexity. From this germ grew the theory of the Syllogism propounded in the Second Book of the Logic; which I immediately ... ...he inductive process to strict rules and to a scientific test, such as the syllogism is for ratiocination. Comte is al ways precise and profound on t...

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...: Canto XI O Thou insensate care of mortal men, How inconclusive are the syllogisms That make thee beat thy wings in downward flight! One after la... ...irit, which has been diffused Upon the ancient parchments and the new, A syllogism is, which proved it to me With such acuteness, that, compared t...

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...mething to my design. But, on examination, I found that, as for logic, its syllogisms and the majority of its other pre cepts are of avail rather i...

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...comprehensive and large as uniformly to furnish the major proposition of a syllogism; whilst the particular act under discussion, wearing, perhaps, so... ...en- eral law or rule of action. This was like the major proposi- tion of a syllogism. But next came a special instance or case, so stated as to indica... ...er the general rule. This, again, was exactly the minor proposi- tion in a syllogism. For example, in logic we say, as the major proposition in a syll... ...uch illustrations of syllo- gism as these were meant for specimens of what syllogism could perform. What an elaborate machinery, it was said, for brin...

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...ccustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter’s Logic: “Caius is a man, men a...

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...ns of Faith, our faith is also properly called evi- dence. 92 Norton is a syllogism 7 which has proved it to me so acutely that in comparison with i... ... ings in regard to matters of faith conclusive. 8 The two premises of the syllogism. 9 The miracles. 10 “The other disciple did outrun Peter,” but ...

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... and trivial sense. The most remarkable additions are the invention of the Syllogism, the conception of happiness as the foundation of morals, the ref...

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...nscience obliges him to swallow, he is brought round to knowledge which no syllogism would have conveyed to him. His own experience is so vivid, he is...

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...he vote. He forgot, as Sergey Ivanovitch explained to him afterwards, this syllogism: that it was necessary for the public good to get rid of the mars...

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...tively, on account of its double meaning, and is the cause of inconclusive syllogisms in reasoning. Therefore for all persons to say the same thing w...

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...ve Sauterne was to Medoc what Catullus was to Homer. He would sport with a syllogism in sipping St. Peray, but unravel an argument over Clos de V ouge...

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...ontemplate all truth and all existence” is very unlike the doctrine of the syllogism which Aristotle claims to have discovered. Neither must we forget...

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...g with it! The thing that is palpably hot, burning, wilt thou prove it, by syllogism, to be a freezing-mixture? This of stretching out Formulas till t...

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...he vote. He forgot, as Sergey Ivanovitch explained to him af terwards, this syllogism: that it was necessary for the public good to get rid of the ma...