Associations to the word «Syllogism»

Wiktionary

SYLLOGISM, noun. (logic) An inference in which one proposition (the conclusion) follows necessarily from two other propositions, known as the premises.
SYLLOGISM, noun. (obsolete) A trick, artifice.

Dictionary definition

SYLLOGISM, noun. Deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky