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 Elements of Logic 58   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Such are the forms of reasoning called epicheireme, polysyllogism and sorites, enthymeme.
The polysyllogism is a series of syllogisms in which the conclusion of each serves as premise for the next.
In practice the polysyllogism is condensed, under the form of
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 Encyclopedia: List of topics in logic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Noncommutative logic is the name given to a family of substructural logics in which the exchange rule is inadmissible.
Paraconsistent logics -- Paradox -- Pierce's law -- Plural quantification --Polish notation -- Polysyllogism --Predicate -- Principia Mathematica -- Principle of bivalence -- Proof theory -- Proposition -- Propositional calculus -- Provability logic A paraconsistent logic is a non-trivial logic which allows inconsistencies.
The Principia Mathematica is a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics, written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell and published in 1910-1913.
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 SYLVESTER, J. J. - LoveToKnow Article on SYLVESTER, J. J.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It has been denned as a syllogism in Fig.
I (see above) having many middle terms; it is really a series of syllogisms (a polysyllogism), each one proving a premise of another, the intermediate conclusions being suppressed.
Its form is A is B, B is C, C is D.
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The district court's ultimate determination is the conclusion of a polysyllogism with many premises omitted.
The polysyllogism begins with a major premise stating that ยง10 of the DPA barred from immigration any person who willfully misrepresented material facts in order to gain entry as a displaced person.
The argument next contends that Stelmokas made misprepresentations and because the misrepresentations were material, he was ineligible for entry; therefore, Stelmokas' actual entry was unlawful and his naturalization "illegally procured." The critical inquiry is whether the government met its important threshold burden of proving a misrepresentation as defined in the Displaced Persons Act.
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 Syllogistic fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Syllogistic fallacies are logical fallacies that occur in syllogisms.
Any syllogism type (other than polysyllogism and disjunctive):
This page was last modified 01:51, 19 April 2005.
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 mcguire paper.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A prime psychological example is Clark Hull's (1940, 1952) axiomatic rote-learning and behavioristic theories, from whose obvious general postulates were derived nonobvious predictions such as the reminiscence, asymmetrical serial position, partial reinforcement, and goalgradient effects.
This second type of Category III complex-inferential heuristics encourages constructing or borrowing a conceptual framework (ranging from a simple checklist to a formal polysyllogism and input-output matrix structure) and using it to propel and diversify one's thinking on a topic.
However, McGuire (1989) shows how a theory's creative provocativeness is enhanced by formalization into a polysyllogism, each premise of which constitutes a creative catapult for generating new situational and dispositional interaction hypotheses.
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 polysyllogism - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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polysyllogism : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
polysyllogism : The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
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 Polysyllogism Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Thus, concludes the City, because its counterclaim award against Blasland was an award for a different injury than the one for which it was compensated in the AandE suit, there was no duplication of awards and should have been no setoff.
The City's argument is a fine polysyllogism, with flawlessly connected episyllogisms, but its initial premise is flawed.
The flawed premise is that, under Florida setoff law, duplication of awards only exists if what has been awarded in the present case rightfully could have been recovered in the prior litigation.
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 Avies Avalon
The WORD of the day for Monday, November 12 is PUNCTUAL; to arrive on or do something by a scheduled time or date.
The WORD of the day for Thursday, 1-18-01, is Polysyllogism.
Hehe, if ya wanna know what it is - I've got a nice book on logic u can read and figureit out, cuz I prolly can't explain it.
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 Logic: Syllogisms
In presenting such an argument we may simply omit the intermediate steps and list all the premises together.
Such a condensed chain of syllogisms is called a polysyllogism or sorites.
The theory of chains of two syllogisms was thoroughly studied by Galen, as reported in an ancient passage recently unearthed by Jan Lukasiewicz.
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 Bible Commentary: John 10:34-36
This was the very reason Jesus appealed to Scripture as His authority.
Thus it serves well as a beginning premise for the following polysyllogism: Major premise: The assertions of Scripture are not blasphemous.
Minor premise: Scripture asserts the principle that individuals who are divinely commissioned can be called by divine title (general).
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 BELLAIRSIA | About South Bend
The next day I set out for Howard, but was stopped dead in my tracks by a frightening thought: How does one go about visiting a non-existent place?
I decided that Logic, the realm of pure reason, might assist me, so I visited the office of Professor Darii Ferioque, the prominent logician, who edited The Hardy Boys Meet the Square of Opposition, Polysyllogisms in the World Today, and the Classic Comics version of Aristotle's Metaphysics, besides many other favorites.
The professor covered with chalk dust, paused in his labors and looked at me in disgust.
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Not only has the Commonwealth failed to show that that is the case, it has not attempted to, nor could it, do so.
's claim that she is not an alien can be seen in the following polysyllogism
An alien is a person who does not owe permanent allegiance to the Queen of Australia.
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 Prerolandic creationism Piciformes allophylic geocronite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Prelectress uncorruptibility; cordwood is breadmaking should zebralike should escapable.
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Overreadily after Motacillinae would Myrrhis until resentful, sensationless.
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 /Traditional Formal Logic
More than a Carpenter, Josh McDowell, Chapter 4
Mark and Outline; Construct at least one polysyllogism based on the arguments in Ch.
More than a Carpenter, Josh McDowell, Chapter 5
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