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Etymology
From a mediaeval mnemonic chant.
Proper noun
Bokardo
- (logic, obsolete) A form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are particular negatives and the second a universal affirmative.
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.
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