syllogistic

English

Etymology

From syllog(ism) +‎ -istic.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

syllogistic (comparative more syllogistic, superlative most syllogistic)

1. Of or pertaining to a syllogism.
   • 1879, George Eliot, chapter 12, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such‎^[1]:

     Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."

Derived terms

• nonsyllogistic
• polysyllogistic
• prosyllogistic
• syllogistical
• syllogistically
• syllogistic fallacy

Translations

relating to syllogism

• Latin: syllogisticus