Bokardo

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proper noun

A form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are particular negatives and the second a universal affirmative.

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Meanings

proper noun

alternative Bocardo

  1. obsoletehuman sciencesA form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are particular negatives and the second a universal affirmative.

    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 161
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    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 132

    Bokardo is converted in a similar manner, only that in this case we substitute the contradictory of the conclusion for the major premiss[…]

    1870, H. Coleman, Notes on logic, page 81

Origin

From a mediaeval mnemonic chant.

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