syllogism
Nevertheless, the syllogistic theory is unable to provide satisfactory answers to many questions.
Since, then, the jury have a right to consider the law, and since the constitution is law, the conclusion is certainly syllogistic that the jury have a right to consider the constitution.
He applies his ideas to traditional syllogistic logic as well as to modern propositional and predicate logic.

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Philosophy

Examples of syllogistic

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They were not syllogistic demonstrations (and they used qualitative representations, not numerical entities or logical categories) and yet they explained effects from physical causes.
To save space, we focus here upon deductive reasoning, and specifically upon syllogistic reasoning.
Nevertheless, he believed that in order to make such an inference ' respectable ', he had to coerce it into the straightjacket of the syllogistic formula.
They conclude that the gap between normative and descriptive syllogistic reasoning can to a moderate extent be accounted for by variation in computational limitations.
All of these facts contradict the syllogistic explanation of philosophical errors and seem to support the axiomatic explanation.
All these are the syllogistic arts, whose operation and aim, once perfected, consists of applying syllogisms.
And more in general, what does make reasoners differ enormously in their syllogistic ability.
There has, in fact, been no shortage of possible heuristics invoked to explain syllogistic reasoning errors.
A layman is likely to favour the syllogistic theory.
Nevertheless, the syllogistic theory is unable to provide satisfactory answers to many questions.
Let us call the first approach an axiomatic theory of philosophical errors, and the second a syllogistic theory.
Most decision researchers, for example, can instantly recognize problems of syllogistic reasoning and, without much conscious effort, determine whether the form is valid or not.
This is precisely one of the most robust and remarkable findings in the psychological study of syllogistic reasoning.
In particular, he found that casting mathematical proofs into syllogistic form posed huge, if not insurmountable problems.
A syllogistic reasoning approach might answer "yes" but a pragmatic approach would not.
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