单词 | cryptic syllogism |
释义 | > as lemmascryptic syllogism cryptic syllogism n. Logic (now rare) a syllogism of which the premises are not fully or explicitly stated.See quot. 1620 at sense B. 2a for a use of cryptic in a more general sense in the context of syllogisms. ΚΠ 1870 Month June 687 They [sc. the Doctors of our Catholic schools] almost universally made use of what are called by some cryptic syllogisms. 1935 A. H. Gilbert tr. J. Milton Art of Logic ii, in Wks. XI. 467 The sorites is a cryptic syllogism of many propositions so progressing in a continued series. 1972 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 12 138 The most dazzling display of his rhetoric and reasoning occurs in the cryptic syllogisms of lines 698-702. < as lemmas |
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