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 1    III,  VII |        former, as the minor of a syllogism.~6. This matter of the use
 2     IV,  XVII|     which it is made.~4. Whether syllogism is the great instrument
 3     IV,  XVII|     reason; and that is, whether syllogism, as is generally thought,
 4     IV,  XVII|       are these:—~First, Because syllogism serves our reason but in
 5     IV,  XVII|    reason well who cannot make a syllogism. If we will observe the
 6     IV,  XVII|          thoughts to any rule of syllogism. And therefore we may take
 7     IV,  XVII|       who know not how to make a syllogism. He that will look into
 8     IV,  XVII|         who yet never heard of a syllogism, nor can reduce any one
 9     IV,  XVII| reasoning within himself. Indeed syllogism is made use of, on occasion,
10     IV,  XVII|       who have so far considered syllogism, as to see the reason why
11     IV,  XVII|        are not sure by virtue of syllogism, that the conclusion certainly
12     IV,  XVII|          reduced to his forms of syllogism. But yet I think, without
13     IV,  XVII|    shortest and clearest without syllogism.~Inference is looked on
14     IV,  XVII|      hold the extremes together.~Syllogism does not discover ideas,
15     IV,  XVII|        But in neither case is it syllogism that discovered those ideas,
16     IV,  XVII|     rationally be made use of in syllogism: unless it can be said,
17     IV,  XVII|         will do well enough in a syllogism, and may be taken at a venture
18     IV,  XVII|       reason make use of it in a syllogism. And when all those syllogisms
19     IV,  XVII|        knowing the true forms of syllogism, nor the reasons of them,
20     IV,  XVII|         well before as after the syllogism is made, or else they do
21     IV,  XVII|         not see it at all. For a syllogism neither shows nor strengthens
22     IV,  XVII|    either of the extremes in the syllogism, that no syllogism does
23     IV,  XVII|        in the syllogism, that no syllogism does or can show. That the
24     IV,  XVII|         seen before as after the syllogism is made, or else he that
25     IV,  XVII|        or else he that makes the syllogism could never see it at all.
26     IV,  XVII|         a major or a minor, in a syllogism or no.~Use of syllogism.
27     IV,  XVII|          syllogism or no.~Use of syllogism. Of what use, then are syllogisms?
28     IV,  XVII|         they can put them into a syllogism, they must see the connexion
29     IV,  XVII|  inference be good or no; and so syllogism comes too late to settle
30     IV,  XVII|         when it is formed into a syllogism. To show it in a very plain
31     IV,  XVII|   position these ideas have in a syllogism, to show the connexion between
32     IV,  XVII|         detect fallacies. Indeed syllogism is thought to be of necessary
33     IV,  XVII|  inference without any need of a syllogism at all.~I grant that mode
34     IV,  XVII|        argumentation better than syllogism; not only as subjecting
35     IV,  XVII|       observed; but also because syllogism shows the incoherence only
36     IV,  XVII|      without which, in or out of syllogism, he cannot perceive the
37     IV,  XVII|         known a man unskilful in syllogism, who at first hearing could
38     IV,  XVII|         others better skilled in syllogism have been misled: and I
39     IV,  XVII|          knowing in the forms of syllogism, or expert in mode and figure.
40     IV,  XVII|          mode and figure. And if syllogism were the only, or so much
41     IV,  XVII|          have neglected to bring syllogism into the debates of moment;
42     IV,  XVII|   Another cause to doubt whether syllogism be the only proper instrument
43     IV,  XVII|      that makes me doubt whether syllogism be the only proper instrument
44     IV,  XVII|         truth lay; and therefore syllogism has been thought more proper
45     IV,  XVII|      fallacies can be couched in syllogism, as it cannot be denied;
46     IV,  XVII|          something else, and not syllogism, that must discover them.~
47     IV,  XVII|      quicker and clearer without syllogism. If use of those spectacles
48     IV,  XVII|      that he finds a need of.~5. Syllogism helps little in demonstration,
49     IV,  XVII|       assist the mind in that as syllogism; which running away with
50     IV,  XVII|        of his opinion by dint of syllogism,) yet still it fails our
51     IV,  XVII|        discoveries. The rules of syllogism serve not to furnish the
52     IV,  XVII|         syllogistically. So that syllogism comes after knowledge, and
53     IV,  XVII|       and sciences are advanced. Syllogism, at best, is but the art
54     IV,  XVII|       Other helps to reason than syllogism should be sought. I doubt
55     IV,  XVII|          but that is plain, that syllogism, and the logic now in use,
56     IV,  XVII|         had occasion to speak of syllogism in general, and the use
57     IV,  XVII|          mistake in the rules of syllogism: viz. that no syllogistical
58     IV,  XVII|       crave leave to offer about syllogism, before I leave it, viz.
59     IV,  XVII|         inquire whether the form syllogism now has, is that which in