Bokardo

English Alternative forms Bocardo Etymology From a mediaeval mnemonic chant. Proper noun en logic obsolete A form or mode of syllogism in which the first and third propositions are particular negatives and the second a universal affirmative. en 1847 Augustus De Morgan Formal logic: or, The Calculus of inference, necessary and probable 132 The moods Baroko and Bokardo do not admit of reduction to the first figure, by any fair use of the phrase en 1870 H. Coleman Notes on logic 81 Bokardo is converted in a similar manner, only that in this case we substitute the contradictory of the conclusion for the major premiss en 2005 Charles Gray Shaw Logic in Theory and Practice 161 The foregoing list of moods in the imperfect Figures II and III does not contain Baroko or Bokardo. See also en Baroko References Bocardo