syllogismhood

English

Etymology

From syllogism +‎ -hood.

Noun

syllogismhood (uncountable)

1. (rare) The property of being a syllogism.
   • 1996, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume XIV, page 189:

     Rather, we should assume that the Stoics had — independently of the themata — some pretechnical notion of syllogismhood, and that the indemonstrables plus themata were devised in order to 'capture' this notion; perhaps also to make it more lucid and precise.

   • 1999, Keimpe Algra, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, page 149:

     It leaves us with the following problem: how can we find the independent Stoic criteria for syllogismhood?

   • 2001, R. W. Sharples, Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism?, page 110:

     These triplets are, if I may so put it, candidates for syllogismhood.