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Particular :: Particular (n.) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises..

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..

Give :: Give (n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given..

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

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

Premise :: Premise (v. i.) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.

Deduction :: Deduction (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.

Distribute :: Distribute (v. t.) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

Enthymeme :: Enthymeme (n.) An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble..

Illation :: Illation (n.) The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.

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..

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

Premise :: Premise (n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

Major :: Major (a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference]..

Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise..

Premises :: Premises (pl. ) of Premis.

Paralogize :: Paralogize (v. i.) To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by 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..

Concludency :: Concludency (n.) Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion.

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

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