SYLLOGISM

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Logic, an argument stated in the correct logical form, consisting of three propositions, and having the property that the conclusion nece arily follows from the two premises; so that if the premises be true, the conclusion must be true also. (Sec Proposition, Logic.) As often as the mind observes any two notions to agree with a third, it immediately concludes that they agree wilh each other: as, A is equal to B; B is equal to C; therefore A is equal to C. Or, if it finds that one of them agrees and the other disagrees with the third, it pronounces that they disagree with each other. In tin QrW of these proce es it produces a syllogism with an affirm a conclusion.tive conclusion in the latter, a syllogism with a m-gntiv. Syllogisms are variously divided: by some into single, complex, and conjunctive, .; by others (according to the Oxford system of logic) into categorical, hypothetical, conditional," . But the categorical syllogism, consisting of [s. 1222]