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Quotation from On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle
“A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated, something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so”
On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, Prior Analytics, Book I, Part 1, trans. A. J. Jenkinson (Oxford, 1928)
The definition that founds formal logic in the Western tradition.
Citation: "A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated, something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so" — Aristotle, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, Prior Analytics, Book I, Part 1, trans. A. J. Jenkinson (Oxford, 1928). (id aristotle-organon-logic-q3)
