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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

syllogismhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From syllogism + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The property of being a syllogism.
    • Rather, we should assume that the Stoics had — independently of the themata — some pretechnical notion of syllogismhood, and that the indemonstrables plus themata were devised in order to 'capture' this notion; perhaps also to make it more lucid and precise. 1996, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, volume XIV, page 189:
    • These triplets are, if I may so put it, candidates for syllogismhood. 2001, R. W. Sharples, Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism?, page 110:
    • It leaves us with the following problem: how can we find the independent Stoic criteria for syllogismhood? 1999, Keimpe Algra, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, page 149: