Sentence examples for linear syllogism from inspiring English sources

There's this linear syllogism in the book.

An example of a reasoning problem based on a linear syllogism is: "John is taller than Bill, and Bill is taller than Pete.

A linear syllogism involves a quantitative comparison in which each term displays either more of less of a particular attribute or quality, and the reasoner must draw conclusions based on the quantification.

A valid yet unbelievable linear syllogism would be as follows:> Thus, participants have to judge whether a syllogism is logically valid, while ignoring its meaning.

In order to examine the reasoning processes, we used linear syllogism (linear order) tasks, which are classified as a "nonmatch" order type (Foos et al. 1976).

Moreover, social anxiety beliefs often imply social comparison, making social anxiety convictions more suitable for translation into linear syllogisms (e.g., 'I am not likeable' translates into 'I am less likeable than others' or into a linear syllogism such as 'I am less likeable than Jane and Jane is less likeable than John').

Who is tallest?" Linear syllogisms can also involve negations, as in "Bill is not as tall as John".

Linear syllogisms in the form 'a > b, b > c, therefore a > c' were constructed for the social anxiety convictions domain.

In the present study we used linear syllogisms that are known to be relatively easy and to produce little errors (Huttenlocher 1968).

Participants (N = 52) with varying levels of fear of negative evaluation completed a belief bias task by means of linear syllogisms, with stimuli covering both social anxiety convictions and factual neutral statements.

Therefore, a group of individuals varying in their level of fear of negative evaluation (one of the central cognitive concepts within social anxiety, e.g., Clark and Wells 1995) was presented with a series of linear syllogisms concerning themes relevant to social anxiety.