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prosyllogism Logic.|prəʊˈsɪlədʒɪz(ə)m|
[ad. med.L. prosyllogism-us (Boeth.), ad. Gr. προσυλλογισµός: see pro-2 and syllogism.]
A syllogism of which the conclusion forms the major or minor premiss of another syllogism.
1584Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 43 Which reason with the prosilogismes of the antecedent being..reduced vnto a sillogisme,..he answered. 1697tr. Burgersdicius Logic ii. xiii. 58 A Prosyllogism is then when two Syllogisms are so contained in five Propositions, as, that the Conclusion of the First becomes the Major or Minor of the Following, as, For Example, this; Every living thing is nourished; But every Plant is a living thing; And therefore every Plant is nourished. But no Stones are nourished: And therefore no Stones are Plants. 1725Watts Logic iii. ii. §6. 1884 tr. Lotze's Logic §96 Every conclusion of a syllogism may..become the major premiss of another syllogism: the first is then called the prosyllogism of the second, and each one that follows the episyllogism of the one which preceded it.
So prosylloˈgistic, prosylloˈgistical adjs., of the nature of or pertaining to a prosyllogism.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. iii. 19 This nowe is a new and prosyllogisticall argument, fet from the very naturall definition of the argument it selfe. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 292 Mounting the scale of their probation upon the prosyllogistick steps of variously-amplified confirmations. |