English-Italian translations for syllogism

• sillogismo
  In questo sillogismo, che potrebbe apparire banale, c’è tutto il senso della battaglia che il Parlamento sta conducendo sulle prospettive finanziarie. Within this syllogism, which may seem obvious, lies the full significance of the battle that Parliament is waging on the financial perspectives.
  Queste sono le ridicole conclusioni dello sciocco sillogismo cui porta la lettura del punto 4 del documento. 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