A Class Room Logic / Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching

by George Hastings McNair

Single, double.

(3) Polysyllogism.

Prosyllogism, episyllogism.

(4) Sorites.

Progressive, regressive.

Two rules of each.

(5) Irregular Arguments.

Quantitative, plurative.

7. SUMMARY.

(1) An enthymeme is a syllogism in which one of the three propositions is omitted. Suppressing the major premise gives an enthymeme of the first order; omitting the minor gives one of the second order; while omitting the conclusion gives one of the third order.