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Demonstration :: Demonstration (n.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions..

Trilemma :: Trilemma (n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma..

Watchdog :: Watchdog (n.) A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders..

Traduction :: Traduction (n.) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to.

Premise :: Premise (n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises..

Infer :: Infer (v. t.) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence..

Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause..

Non Sequitur :: Non sequitur () An inference which does not follow from the premises.

Episyllogism :: Episyllogism (n.) A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism..

Inconsequent :: Inconsequent (a.) Not following from the premises; not regularly inferred; invalid; not characterized by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence.

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like..

Consectary :: Consectary (n.) That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary.

Epichirema :: Epichirema (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner..

Syllogistic :: Syllogism (n.) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration.

Converse :: Converse (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal..

Deductive :: Deductive (a.) Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.

Inconsequential :: Inconsequential (a.) Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence..

Tippling-house :: Tippling-house (n.) A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises..

Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.

Result :: Result (v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor..

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