Syllogism vs Dialectical - What's the difference?
syllogism | dialectical |
(logic) An inference in which one proposition (the conclusion) follows necessarily from two other propositions, known as the premises.
* "All humans are mortal. You are a human. Therefore you will die" is a syllogism.
(obsolete) A trick, artifice.
Of, or pertaining to dialectic; logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
Of, or characteristic of a dialect; dialectal.