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premise) Jump to: navigation, search  A syllogism (Greek:
συλλογισμός syllogismos, "conclusion, inference") is a kind of
logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a
conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted
or assumed to be true.   All men are mortal.  Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is mortal.  The word "therefore" can be
represented by the symbol "∴"  Early history[edit]  In
antiquity, two rival theories of the syllogism existed:
Aristotelian syllogistic and Stoic syllogistic.[1] Aristotle
defines the syllogism as, "...a discourse in which certain
(specific) things having been supposed, something different from
the things supposed results of necessity because these things
are so."[2] Despite this very general definition, in Aristotle's
work Prior Analytics, he limits himself to categorical
syllogisms that consist of three categorical propositions.[3]
These include categorical modal syllogisms.[4]