Logic. [ad. mod.L. episyllogismus: see EPI- and SYLLOGISM.] (See quot.)

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1860.  Abp. Thomson, Laws Th., § 111. 241.

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1884.  trans. Lotze’s Logic, 95. Every conclusion of a syllogism may conceivably become the major premiss of another syllogism: the first is then called the prosyllogism of the second, and each one that follows the episyllogism of the one which preceded it.

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