syllogism
noun/ˈsɪlədʒɪzəm/
/ˈsɪlədʒɪzəm/
(specialist)- a way of arguing in which two statements are used to prove that a third statement is true, for example: ‘All humans must die; I am a human; therefore I must die.’Topics Opinion and argumentc2Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French or Latin from Greek sullogismos, from sullogizesthai, from sun- ‘with’ + logizesthai ‘to reason’ (from logos ‘reasoning’).
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