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Definition of Syllogise

1. Verb. Reason by syllogisms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllogise

Literary usage of Syllogise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organon of Science: Three Books in One Volume by John Harrison Stinson (1879)
"But if this bo not a legitimate syllogism, what is ir- General propositions are necessary at all to enable us to syllogise, excepting when we wish to ..."

2. The Christian Reformer, Or, Unitarian Magazine and Review (1845)
"syllogise thy best loved and most valued friend : " I love and trust my ... But syllogise him again : " He has said something unworthy of his best self and ..."

3. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"This supposes that it has been ' generally thought' that men consciously syllogise in every instance of their employment of the illative conjunctions ..."

4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"... as your Worships all know, syllogise by their nose; though there is an island swimming in the sea, though not altogether at its ease, whose inhabitants, ..."

5. The Classical Journal (1818)
"Now it is demonstrable that in the formation of conclusions in experimental philosophy, we must necessarily syllogise either really without being ..."

6. Biographia Philosophica: A Retrospect by Alexander Campbell Fraser (1904)
"A mere animal cannot syllogise or generalise. Divine intelligence, comprehensive of the universe of reality, does not need to ..."

7. Organon of Science: Three Books in One Volume by John Harrison Stinson (1879)
"But if this bo not a legitimate syllogism, what is ir- General propositions are necessary at all to enable us to syllogise, excepting when we wish to ..."

8. The Christian Reformer, Or, Unitarian Magazine and Review (1845)
"syllogise thy best loved and most valued friend : " I love and trust my ... But syllogise him again : " He has said something unworthy of his best self and ..."

9. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"This supposes that it has been ' generally thought' that men consciously syllogise in every instance of their employment of the illative conjunctions ..."

10. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"... as your Worships all know, syllogise by their nose; though there is an island swimming in the sea, though not altogether at its ease, whose inhabitants, ..."

11. The Classical Journal (1818)
"Now it is demonstrable that in the formation of conclusions in experimental philosophy, we must necessarily syllogise either really without being ..."

12. Biographia Philosophica: A Retrospect by Alexander Campbell Fraser (1904)
"A mere animal cannot syllogise or generalise. Divine intelligence, comprehensive of the universe of reality, does not need to ..."

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