Friday, July 05, 2013

Today's word

syllogism \SIL-uh-jiz-um\ - 1. a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion  2. a subtle, specious, or crafty argument  3. deductive reasoning
I'm sure I've seen this definition before, but I can never remember precisely what this word means when I see it.

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