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单词 syllogize
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syllogizev.

Brit. /ˈsɪlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsɪləˌdʒaɪz/
Forms: Middle English sylogyse, sillogise, 1600s sillogize, 1500s– syllogize, 1600s– syllogise.
Etymology: < Old French sil(l)ogiser, or < medieval Latin syllogizāre (Boethius, Thomas Aquinas), < Greek συλλογίζεσθαι , < σύν syn- prefix + λογίζεσθαι to reckon, calculate, compute, conclude, infer, < λόγος discourse, reason, consideration, account. Syllogize has often been explained as meaning literally ‘to collect’, Latin colligere being regarded as the etymological equivalent of Greek συλλογίζεσθαι (perhaps by association with συλλογή collection, συλλέγειν to collect); compare Milton's Logic ii. ix, eam ratiocinantis quasi collectionem vox ipsa syllogismi significat. It has otherwise been interpreted as ‘to add up, make a sum of’, as if συλλογίζεσθαι were an intensive of λογιζέσθαι in the sense of ‘to calculate, compute’.
1.
a. intransitive. To argue by syllogisms; to reason syllogistically; also gen. (Also with it.)
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > argue by syllogisms [verb (intransitive)]
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c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 19 Me nought auaylyd ayene hym to sylogyse.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1555) ix. sig. E ij b But rude people, opprest with blyndnes Agaynst your fables, wyll often solisgyse [sic].
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 250 All receipts and authors you can name he syllogizeth of.
c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 146 Though they [sc. philosophers] can sillogize with arguments Of al thinges.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne ii. vi. 65 Heare him problematize..Or syllogize, elenchize.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 93 This constant concealing himselfe put her in doubt, causing her to syllogize; That who so loveth, the same obeyeth the thing or subject beloved, but he obeyed not (because he told her not who hee was) and therefore he loved her not.
1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iv. iv. 43 I have heard him syllogize it with Mr. Soaker in Mood and Figure.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. vi. 20 To Syllogise is to collect, that is, conclude, or from some certain Propositions to draw up the Summ of an Argument or Proof.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xvi. 95 And then he would do nothing but syllogize within himself for a stage or two together, How far the cause [etc.].
1788 T. Taylor in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 54 (note) Thus we may syllogize in the first figure, Everything white, is an animal: Every bird is white: Therefore, Every bird is an animal.
1875 W. Jackson Doctr. Retribution i. 54 They [sc. first-truths] cannot be proved deductively, because, being first, there is nothing prior from which to syllogize.
1907 F. Harrison Creed of Layman 168 He does not syllogise about the origin of things, but he goes straight to the practical work of religion.
b. transitive. To argue (a person) out of a condition, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > argue about, dispute [verb (transitive)] > in order to persuade
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the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > by arguing contention
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1718 Free-thinker No. 14. 2 A Scholastick Jugler, who plays his Legerdemain Tricks to Syllogize the Ignorant out of their Understanding and their Senses.
1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 2 51 That [he] should of a sudden fall in metaphysics, and, by a few miserable sophisms syllogize himself out of all hopes of an hereafter.
c. To deduce by syllogism.Only in transl. and echoes of Dante Paradiso x. 138 sillogizzò invidiosi veri = ‘drew true conclusions which brought odium upon him’ (Tozer).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > deduce by syllogism [verb (transitive)]
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1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. Dante Paradiso x. 138 Sigier, Who, reading lectures in the Street of Straw, Did syllogize invidious verities.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 337 The men who attack abuses are not so much to be dreaded by the reigning house of Superstition as those who, as Dante says, syllogize hateful truths.
1884 J. R. Lowell Democracy (1887) 15 It is then only that they syllogize unwelcome truths.
2. intransitive (nonce-use, after sympathize.) To agree in ways of thinking.
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1800 J. Mackintosh Let. to Moore 27 Sept. in Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) I. 141 There is no body to whom I speak with such unreserved agreeable liberty, because we so much sympathise and (to borrow Parr's new coined word) syllogise.

Derivatives

ˈsyllogizer n. a syllogistic reasoner.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > one who uses
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1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 96 These cunning Syllogizers, or any like Sophisticall concluders.
1606 J. Dove Def. Church Govt. 72 It is not a noueltie of 60. yeares old, as this syllogiser hath obiected.
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. xvi. 86 Every Syllogizor is not presently a match to cope with Bellarmine.
ˈsyllogizing n. reasoning by syllogisms.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > [noun] > reasoning by syllogisms
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syllogistic1833
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 76 For that thei trusten and trowen the premisse be trewe, eer that thei seen the premisses sufficientli proued bi sillogizing.
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xcvii. 169 They hauing recourse to interpreting, to expounding, to glossinge, and to sillogisinge, do rather geue it some other sence, then the proper meaninge of the letter.
1653 J. Webster Academiarum Examen 38 The vain glory of Syllogizing Sophistry.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. i. v. 42 Errors which happen in Reasoning, that is, in Syllogizing, consist either in the Falsity of the Premisses, or of the Inference.
1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 36 Plato's manner of arguing is more succinct than the tedious way of Syllogising.
1699 T. Baker Refl. Learning v. 58 The way of Syllogizing seem'd to him very fallacious and too dependent upon words, to be much rely'd on.
1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 722 The reasoning power he [sc. Newton] displayed in the mathematical forms of syllogizing.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 134 There is no ground for saying that reason, the faculty of syllogising, is different and distinct from understanding, the faculty of judging.
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