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WE must first state the subject of our inquiry and the faculty to which it belongs: |
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A premiss then is a sentence affirming or denying one thing of another. |
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I call that a term into which the premiss is resolved, i |
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A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated, something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so. |
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I call that a perfect syllogism which needs nothing other than what has been stated to make plain what necessarily follows; |
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That one term should be included in another as in a whole is the same as for the other to be predicated of all of the first. |
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