Meanings
- rareuncountableThe property of being a syllogism.
These triplets are, if I may so put it, candidates for syllogismhood.
2001, R. W. Sharples, Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism?, page 1102 more examples
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 189It 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
Origin
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