English-French translations for syllogism

• syllogisme
  Ce syllogisme, apparemment évident, renferme la pleine signification du combat mené par le Parlement sur le plan des perspectives financières. Within this syllogism, which may seem obvious, lies the full significance of the battle that Parliament is waging on the financial perspectives.
  Telles sont les conclusions ridicules du syllogisme absurde auquel porte la lecture du point 4 du document. These are the ludicrous conclusions resulting from the foolish syllogism to be found in Section 4 of the document.

Definition of syllogism

• An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion
• A trick, artifice; an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument; a sophism

Related words

• prosyllogism
• polysyllogism
• monosyllogism
• disjunctive syllogism
• hypothetical syllogism