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prosleptic

prosleptic adjective: being or involving a particular kind of proposition in a syllogism. (See Wikipedia article.).

Adjective

prosleptic (not comparable)

  1. Being or involving a particular kind of proposition in a syllogism. (See Wikipedia article.)
    • Since a prosleptic formula involves generalization over kinds, it must be understood to entail every proposition expressible by […]1972, Richard Walzer, Samuel Miklos Stern, Albert Hourani, Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, page 195

Questions about prosleptic

What does prosleptic mean?
Prosleptic means being or involving a particular kind of proposition in a syllogism. (See Wikipedia article.).
What part of speech is prosleptic?
Prosleptic is an adjective.

Words near prosleptic in the dictionary

  1. proslaveryism
  2. proslavic
  3. proslavist
  4. proslavists
  5. proslepsis
  6. prosleptic
  7. proso
  8. proso millet
  9. proso millets
  10. proso-
  11. prosobranch

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