An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SYLLOGIZE
syllogize, syllogise
(verb) reason by syllogisms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
syllogize (third-person singular simple present syllogizes, present participle syllogizing, simple past and past participle syllogized)
(intransitive) To reason by means of syllogisms.
(transitive) To deduce consequences from.
Source: Wiktionary
Syl"lo*gize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Syllogized; p. pr. & vb. n. Syllogizing.] Etym: [Gr. syllogiser.]
Definition: To reason by means of syllogisms. Men have endeavored . . . to teach boys to syllogize, or frame arguments and refute them, without any real inward knowledge of the question. I. Watts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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25 December 2024
UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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