(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.
Trilemma
Definition:
(n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.
(n.) A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychosomatic theories reach at the question about the mind-body problem some difficulties, which are resumed in the trilemma of Bieri.
(2) We must begin weaning ourselves off gas as quickly as possible.” A Whitehall source said Rudd remained focused on the energy trilemma, a recognition of the need to balance energy security, affordability and climate change.
(3) Antony Froggatt senior research fellow at Chatham House says energy policy was often viewed as a trilemma with three competing priorities - security, affordability and sustainability.
(4) Yet with its contradictions and conditional undertakings, it did not quite add up to a clear path through the so-called energy trilemma: the balance to be struck between security, sustainability and affordability.
(5) Against my repudiation he proposes an emergentist system theory solution apparently solving the so-called Bieri trilemma.
(6) Solving the trilemma of greener supplies, cheaper bills, and lights that stay on, was never going to be easy.
(7) The Bieri-trilemma demonstrates the resulting epistemological calamity.
(8) Politics is grappling with what the economist Dani Rodrik has called an “inescapable trilemma” : the ability to have any two of democracy, global integration and the nation state, but not all three simultaneously.
(9) But if the country really is to tackle the " trilemma" of rising bills, increased energy insecurity and lower carbon emissions, Centrica might need not just new management but a totally new business model.
(10) But she said the "old trilemma" of decarbonisation, energy security and affordability meant there was relentless upward pressure on prices.
(11) Meanwhile Guy Johnson, a director at RWE npower, said he believed that energy security was the most important element of the trilemma mentioned by Knight.