English

Proper noun

Bokardo

1. (logic, obsolete) A form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are universal affirmatives and the third a particular negative.
   • 1847, Augustus De Morgan, Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable (page 132)

     The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase […]

   • 1870, H. Coleman, Notes on logic (page 81)

     Bokardo is converted in a similar manner, only that in this case we substitute the contradictory of the conclusion for the major premiss […]

   • 2005, Charles Gray Shaw, Logic in Theory and Practice (page 161)

     The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo.

See also

• Baroko

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