Bokardo

English

Alternative forms

Bocardo

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.

See also

Baroko

References

“Bocardo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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