See Also: horns of thyroid cartilage(medicine)
thyroid cartilage(medicine)
lamina of thyroid cartilage(medicine)
oblique line of thyroid cartilage(medicine)
inferior horn of thyroid cartilage(medicine)
superior horn of thyroid cartilage(medicine)
iliac horns(medicine)
Pulling in their horns(finance)
sacral horns(medicine)
Pulling in their horns(money)

syllogism (iou) and horns of thyroid cartilage (medicine)


syllogism (iou)



syllogism noun. LME.
[Old French sil(l)ogisme, earlier sillogime (mod. syllogisme) or Latin syllogismus from Greek sullogismos, from sullogizesthai intensive of logizesthai reckon, compute, conclude, from logos reasoning, discourse: see SYN-, LOGOS, -ISM.]
Logic. A form of reasoning in which a conclusion is deduced from two given or assumed propositions called the premisses, which contain a common or middle term that is absent from the conclusion (e.g. All As are Bs, all Bs are Cs, therefore all As are Cs). LME.
horned syllogism: see HORNED adjective.
b. transf. A form or process of reasoning or something regarded as such; esp. one which is specious or subtle. Also, an artifice, a trick. Freq. joc. or iron. LME.
F. W. Farrar Took refuge in what St. Chrysostom calls 'the syllogism of violence'.
The form of syllogistic reasoning, reasoning in that form; the form of reasoning from generals to particulars. Also, deduction or mediate inference (as distinguished from induction or immediate inference). L16.

horns of thyroid cartilage (medicine)


horns of thyroid cartilage


See: inferior horn of thyroid cartilage, superior horn of thyroid cartilage.