(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe a technical artifice, the use silicon-impregnated compresses, to help in the peroperative ultrasonographic detection of these section planes.
(2) The seriousness and sincerity were almost shocking in that den of artifice.
(3) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
(4) As I signed up, I decided to ask Martha a few questions to see how much of her was artifice.
(5) All of the suffering in Europe – inflicted in the service of a man-made artifice, the euro – is even more tragic for being unnecessary.
(6) There never will be sufficient financial resources, organizational artifice, or measurable standards to safeguard quality any other way.
(7) Poisonous and deleterious components are deemed to be "added," even if they are natural constituents of food, if any amount is present through the artifice of man.
(8) As such, the migration amendment bill seeks to implement a staggering legal artifice for a nation that claims to walk tall among the civilised.
(9) Technical artifices are described to assist compliance with these imperatives.
(10) "These are legal artifices created to result in paying less tax," he said.
(11) But this operation imposes technical artifices when direct urtero-vesical implantation is not possible.
(12) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
(13) The less visible in the context of individual's facial architecture the more esthetic the prosthetic artifice is.
(14) It's almost as though the more outmoded a politician becomes, the more artifice is required to keep him fresh.
(15) We think that this artifice could also be used in case of anatomic variations of the hepatic artery like trifurcation.
(16) The essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.
(17) Barnard's unusual technique, highlighting the artifice in film-making, showed that no single person has a monopoly on truth – and certainly not the documentary director who shapes truth into a narrative in the editing process.
(18) The proper manoeuvres and artifices to avoid intraoperative accidents are suggested.
(19) Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language.
(20) As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance.
Syllogism
Definition:
(n.) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no valid practical syllogism, having true premises, whose conclusion is that research with recombinant DNA should be stopped.
(2) If not, he has fallen into that GCSE syllogism: this book is about women; women are feminists; ergo this book is about feminism.
(3) 20 syllogisms were administered, 10 in English and 10 in Spanish, and accuracy of and strategy for solution were examined.
(4) Subjects completed the reasoning measure of 48 syllogisms, and the perceptual measure involving identification of positive, negative, or neutral stimulus words presented tachistoscopically.
(5) They’re laugh lines without thought, unlinked by a program or even syllogism.
(6) "It is in my view a much better vehicle for philosophy than syllogisms and logical constructs," she says.
(7) The wide applicability of reasoning by analogy and by syllogism as complementary strategies is illustrated through their use in a critical review of the editorial page of a daily newspaper, and in linking content material in several domains.
(8) He examines a model syllogism of a medical decision that requires lay involvement, and explores other individual and social roles that laypersons play at all levels of medical decision making Brief summaries of his colleagues' articles conclude the essay.
(9) The sameness in the strategy for forming a generalization from experience is called "reasoning by analogy," while the sameness in the strategy for applying generalizations is described by the syllogism (logical reasoning).
(10) The testimony of most expert witnesses is reducible to a syllogism: The expert derives a relevant opinion (the conclusion) by applying a general theory or technique (the major premise) to the specific facts of the case (the minor premise).
(11) Merkel may be the one European leader who from to time has actually faced Germans and Europeans with the devastating syllogism that Europe has 7% of the world's people, who possess 25% of the world's wealth and award themselves 50% of the world's social spending – with the clear (and surely correct) implication that a globalised economy and the rise of China make this hard to sustain without reform.
(12) Experiments 1 and 2 compared the predictions of these two theories by examining whether the interaction would disappear if only determinate syllogisms were used.
(13) In Experiment 2, for example, subjects were given logical syllogisms during acquisition.
(14) Differences by grade were not significant except a higher proportion of theoretical explanations were given by children in Grade 5 for syllogisms in Spanish.
(15) The selective scrutiny account claims that people focus on the conclusion and only engage in logical processing if this is found to be unbelievable; while the misinterpreted necessity account claims that subjects misunderstand what is meant by logical necessity and respond on the basis of believability when indeterminate syllogisms are presented.
(16) And, as the rest of the politician’s syllogism has it, ruling out a coalition with the SNP was something; therefore, Ed Miliband had to say that .
(17) In experiments 1 and 2 subjects drew their own conclusions from syllogisms that suggested believable or unbelievable ones.