Comment by nomilk

6 hours ago

Only time encountering the word syllogism was a Norm Macdonald joke.

Disappointingly, syllogism seems to have 3 definitions which mean slightly different things: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/syllogism

I guess the commonality is that a syllogism typically contains deductive reasoning (i.e. from the general to the specific)

Syllogism:

Universal claim: all cats are animals

Particular claim: Max is a cat

Singular claim: Max is an animal.