Logic. Of a proposition: involving the affirmation or negation of possibility, impossibility, necessity, or contingency; (more widely) that contains…

Logic. Of a proposition: Involving a hypothesis or condition, conditional: opposed to categorical, adj. n. Of a syllogism: Having a hypothetical…

= prosyllogistic adj.

Logic. Abridged, abbreviated: see quots.

relating to or involving a prosyllogism.

Designating or relating to a type of syllogism supposedly differing from the usual demonstrative or apodictic syllogism of Aristotle. Cf. deictical…

Of an argument, sentence, etc.: that takes the form of an enthymeme, esp. in leaving one or more premises unstated (cf. enthymeme, n. 1a 1b)…

Of or relating to an epicheirema or epicheiremas (see epicheirema, n.); having the form of an epicheirema.

= hypothetical, adj. 1.

Logic. Designating or relating to a predicate which is affirmed or denied of the subject without a qualification (opposed to modal, adj.1 1); (of a…

Logic. (See quots., and direct, adj. 4c.)

Belonging to or of the nature of a dialect.

That ‘takes away’ or negatives: opposed to ponent, adj.2

Logic. Applied to a complex (hypothetical) proposition in which the clauses are related as antecedent and consequent; also to a syllogism which…

Combining the ‘hypothetical’ (conjunctive) and disjunctive forms of statement: applied to a conditional proposition of which the consequent is…

Pertaining to logical ‘figure’.

Logic. Of a syllogism: Not belonging to one of the usual figures.

Involving subsumption.

pertaining to or characterized by an episyllogism.