| 单词 | demonstrative syllogism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdemonstrative syllogism demonstrative syllogism n. (also †syllogism demonstrative) [after post-classical Latin syllogismus demonstrativus (5th or 6th cent. in Boethius); compare Middle French, French syllogisme demonstratif (1571 or earlier)] Logic a syllogism in which the necessary truth of both premises is known or demonstrable. ΚΠ 1599 T. Blundeville Art of Logike 118 They deuide a simple Sillogisme, according to the matter of the Propositions, whereof it is made into three kindes, that is into a Syllogisme Demonstratiue, Dialecticall, and Sophisticall. 1624 N. De Lawne tr. P. Du Moulin Elements Logick v. ii. 163 A demonstratiue Syllogisme [Fr. le Syllogisme demonstratif] is that which prooveth that the attribute of the conclusion is truely attributed vnto the subject. 1788 T. Taylor Diss. Platonic Doctr. Ideas in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. p. xl This demonstrative syllogism differs not a little from others. 1889 R. F. Clarke Logic iii. viii. 419 Certitude, the offspring of what we have called the Demonstrative Syllogism, Opinion of the Probable Syllogism, and Error of the Sophistical Syllogism. 1996 Hist. Philos. Q. 13 181 The major premise is true by definition of this concept...The minor premise is also necessary. That makes the conclusion necessary. We therefore have a demonstrative syllogism. < as lemmas |
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