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Aristotle’s Syllogistic Logic

  1. The ‘usual’ example of the ‘Barbara’ syllogism:

    All men are mortal,
    Socrates is a man,
    therefore
    Socrates is mortal.
  2. Another (inference) form:

    All men are mortal,
    All Greeks are men,
    therefore
    All Greeks are mortal.
  3. The same, in the form of an implication:

    If all men are mortal
    and all Greeks are men,
    then all Greeks are mortal.
  4. Generalized:

    If all B is A
    and all C is B,
    then all C is A.
  5. The actual Aristotelian syllogism:

    If A is predicated of all B
    and B is predicated of all C,
    then A is predicated of all C.

A thorough discussion of Aristotle’s logic may be found in:
Jan Lukasiewicz. Aristotle’s Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic. Oxford, 1951.