SYLLOGIZING

Verb

syllogizing

present participle of syllogize

Source: Wiktionary


SYLLOGIZE

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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MECHANISM

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