Our comprehensive guide to literary devices is chock full of examples from masterful writers. Often, rhetorical devices emphasize a specific language pattern, word, sentence structure, or rhyming pattern. They include formative techniques, likerepetitionorhyperbole, that accentuate certain elements of a w...
To do so, we used syllogisms with singular premises (e.g., this X is Y). This resulted in a uniform increase in performance as compared to performance on the associated standard syllogisms. These results cannot be explained by the main theories of syllogistic reasoning in their current ...
Lanigan, Richard L. "Enthymeme: The Rhetorical Species of Aristotle's Syllogism." Southern Speech Communication Journal 39(Spring 1974): 207-22.Lanigan, R. L. (1974) `Enthymeme: the rhetorical species of Aristotle's syllogism.' Southern Communication Journal, 39, pp. 207-22....
conditional syllogismsmethodcriteria of truthThis paper proposes a classification of economic models into three types: historical, axiomatic and conditional. Historical or empirical models utilize the historical-deductive method, and are generalizations from the economic regularities and tendencies that we ...
Enthymemes, Doxa, and the Problem of Elided SyllogismAmmar Safaa Hussein
Aristotelian syllogismessential moodsderivative moodsThe paper presents a method of truth-graph by truth-tables. On the one hand, the truth-graph constituted by truth value coordinate and circumference displays a more visual representation of the different combinations of truth-values for the simple or...
Whenever H is Z then Every J is D No D is A Whenever H is Z then Some J is not A The present paper will be devoted to discussions of the validity of mixed conditional-categorical syllogisms of this form, and purported counterexamples, from Avicenna (d. 1037) to Urmawi (d. 1283)....