- The ‘usual’ example of the ‘Barbara’ syllogism:
All men are mortal,
Socrates is a man,
therefore
Socrates is mortal.
- Another (inference) form:
All men are mortal,
All Greeks are men,
therefore
All Greeks are mortal.
- The same, in the form of an implication:
If all men are mortal
and all Greeks are men,
then all Greeks are mortal.
- Generalized:
If all B is A
and all C is B,
then all C is A.
- 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.