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Bocardo

Bocardo is the alternative form of Bokardo.

Meaning of Bokardo

Proper noun

Bokardo

  1. (obsolete) A form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are particular negatives and the second a universal affirmative.
    • The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase[…]1847, Augustus De Morgan, Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable, page 132

Questions about Bocardo

What is Bocardo the alternative form of?
Bocardo is the alternative form of Bokardo.

Words near Bocardo in the dictionary

  1. Bocanegra
  2. Bocanegras
  3. bocaparvoviral
  4. bocaparvovirus
  5. bocaparvoviruses
  6. Bocardo
  7. bocarones
  8. bocasine
  9. BOCAT
  10. Bocaue
  11. bocaux

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bocardo (page history and authors); Bokardo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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