• (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.
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Ep`i·syl'lo·gism noun [ Prefix
epi- +
syllogism .]
(Logic) 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.
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Where the conclusion of one (categorical) syllogism is used as one of the premisses of another, the first syllogism is called a prosyllogism and the second one an episyllogism. -- A.C.
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a syllogism one of the premises of which is the conclusion of a preceding syllogism; any of the syllogisms included in a polysyllogism except the first one. Cf. polysyllogism.
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