Meanings
alternative Baroco
- obsoletehuman sciencesA form or mode of syllogism in which the first proposition is a universal affirmative and the other two are particular negative.
The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo.
2005, Charles Gray Shaw, Logic in Theory and Practice, page 1612 more examples
The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase[…]
1847, Augustus De Morgan, Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable, page 132But this Conclusion is false, consequently the Minor Premise of the first Syllogism, Baroko, its contradictory, is true.
1870, William Dexter Wilson, An elementary treatise on logic, page 129
Origin
From a mediaeval mnemonic chant.
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