(n.) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) 9.11pm GMT Sen Barbara Mikulski of Maryland asks Brennan if she can count on him to "speak truth to power."
(2) Memo to bosses: expect zero loyalty from your zero-hours workers | Barbara Ellen Read more Field asked them to detail the costs couriers are expected to meet themselves, such as uniform and fuel, as well as data on their average hourly rate and information about what efforts the companies go to to ensure owner-drivers are earning the “ national living wage ”.
(3) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(4) She does talk openly and movingly about Barbara, though, whose rebelliousness became so troublesome for her parents that she was placed in various institutions during her teens.
(5) Barbara Frost, WaterAid’s chief executive, said: “We welcome the agreement, the work of member state negotiators to get here and, most significantly, the overarching commitment to end extreme poverty through sustainable development by 2030.” Dominic Haslam, director of policy at Sightsavers, applauded the goals for including specific targets to improve access to employment, education and transport for people with disabilities.
(6) Nancy Reagan was totally devoted to President Reagan, and we take comfort that they will be reunited once more,” said Barbara Bush, wife of Reagan’s vice-president and successor, in a statement.
(7) It notched its first victory in 2015 when the California representative Barbara Lee, a longtime abortion rights supporter, led the introduction of a bill to guarantee abortion access for women on Medicaid.
(8) When the police visited Rodger, whom Brown said deputies found “rather shy, timid and polite, well-spoken”, he played down any mental problems, telling police he was having difficulties with his social life and was planning to drop out of Santa Barbara City College.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Barbara Siegienczuk, one of the leaders of the local anti-shale gas protest group Green Zurawlow, with her husband and co-activist, Andrzej Bak.
(10) Bono participated in the event and praised our policy ... Laura, Barbara, Jenna, and I consider him a friend.” Three years later, in preparations leading up to the G8 conference, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, was in discussion with Bono and Sir Bob Geldof .
(11) He said he was disappointed that the Liberal Democrat leader of the council, Barbara Janke, did not, in his opinion, know much about global politics.
(12) As the authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Sarah Schulman have shown, we have ethical responsibilities to the vulnerable in our communities – and we find excuses to avoid them.
(13) Researcher Barbara Preston says that in 1996, there were 13 low income kids to every 10 higher income kids in our public secondary schools.
(14) In chronological order the four shortlisted contenders are: Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP (1892), the nearest thing it has to a founder; Clement Attlee, presiding mastermind of the postwar welfare state; Aneurin Bevan, charismatic architect of Labour's best-loved, most enduring institution, the NHS; and Barbara Castle, the woman prime minister Labour never had.
(15) Cases (n = 268) were selected from the Colorado IDDM Registry and the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes (Denver, CO).
(16) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
(17) In this classic article, reprinted from the March 1952 issue of the American Journal of Nursing, Barbara K. Coleman, RN, and John P. Merrill, MD, describe the early artificial kidney, which was being used experimentally to treat acute renal failure.
(18) The process was clean and the results were unequivocal,” said panel member Steven Courtney, a scientist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
(19) A few years before Lady Thatcher and Mr Letwin became obsessed with the poll tax, the American historian Barbara Tuchman wrote a book about the march of folly in human affairs from the Trojan to the Vietnamese war.
(20) Barbara is one of 500,000 women who, under the government's plans, will have to wait for more than a year longer than previously envisaged before receiving their state pension.
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.