syllogistic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllogistic
Adjective
  • But there’s little logical argument for keeping him on.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • This is a logical form of thinking in the sense that AGI as an intellectual mechanism would be unable to compete in jobs that involve hands-on work.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Tigers, meanwhile, have searched for the blend every baseball team looks for: Merging the old school and the new, analytic savvy and human feel.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Superintelligence is the point at which AI intelligence passes human intelligence in general cognitive and analytic functions.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • And, of course, doing all these things in the presence of clients just shows a complete lack of rational thought.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
  • This is a state where each person settles on a strategy that feels rational given everyone else’s, even if the group as a whole is stuck in mediocrity.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Prior to Sunday's attack, Soliman was driving for Uber, which required him to have a valid Social Security number, CBS News has learned.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 3 June 2025
  • On cross-examination, Ferguson confirmed that there were employees in the finance department who went through the corporate credit card statements to determine which charges were valid business expenses and which were personal expenses.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Create a coherent narrative showing your evolution.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Having those two positions secured gives the Patriots a chance to implement a coherent vision for the long term.
    Mike Sando, New York Times, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • One of his most significant contributions was introducing new mathematical tools to model and incorporate a priori data—which relies on deductive reasoning to make predictions—to address signal recovery challenges.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Knowing a priori which stocks will outperform the market is also much more difficult than reviewing the trends that occurred in the past.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The empirical evidence, however, suggests otherwise.
    Dave Wessner, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • And despite claims that providing unemployment insurance will encourage striking workers to stay out longer, both common sense and empirical evidence suggest otherwise.
    Ed Hawthorne, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • Under coach Manolo González, Espanyol has just placed a reasonable 14th in La Liga.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Like when Jesse makes the perfectly reasonable decision not to mount a doomed attempt to save a cultist when they're outnumbered by WLF members.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025
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“Syllogistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllogistic. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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