SYCOPHANT

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) It was forbidden by the laws of Athens at one period to export figs. The public informers who gave notice of delinquencies against this fiscal law were extremely unpopular, and hence the word came into use to signify an informer or false accuser generally; in which sense it is constantly used by Aris toph anes and the orators. In modern languages it has acquired the sense of a mean flatterer. negative premises you can infer nothing; i. e. if two terms disagree with a third, you cannot conclude either their mutual agreement or disagreement. 6. If one premi be negative, the conclusion must be negative; for if one term disagree with the middle, it must of nece ity also disagree with the other. The other rules are corollaries deducible from these six. The mood of a syllogism is the designation of its three propositions in their order, according to their respective quantity and quality. By reference to the head Proposition, it will be seen that arbitrary sjnnbols are adopted [ in logic to mark the quality and quantity of propositions: I thus A stands for a universal affirmative; E represents a universal negative; I a particular affirmative; O a par, ticular negative. These four letters will afl'ord sixty-four ' different combinations of three letters; but of these the: greater part will afford syllogisms erring against some I one or more of the rules previously laid down: thus I E E E would be at once inadmi ible, as exhibiting two I negative premises, — against rule.5. By an accurate exj am in at i on, it is found that eleven moods only will afford correct svllogisms: A A A, A A I, A E E, A E O, A II, A O O, E A E, E A O, E I O, I A I, O A O. [s. 1213]