Jevons's Elementary Lessons in Logic, Lesson XV, "The Rules of the Syllogism" (pp.126–131), is the text behind the eight numbered rules Aikins reproduces in his Ch. XVI footnote
Jevons's Lesson XV states that the rules of the syllogism "are eight in number" and lists them: (1) every syllogism has three and only three terms; (2) every syllogism contains three and only three propositions; (3) the middle term must be distributed once at least, and must not be ambiguous; (4) no term must be distributed in the conclusion which was not distributed in one of the premises; (5) from negative premises nothing can be inferred; (6) if one premise be negative, the conclusion must be negative, and vice versa — followed by two rules Jevons explicitly calls "subordinate," "deduced" from the first six: (7) from two particular premises no conclusion can be drawn; (8) if one premise be particular, the conclusion must be particular.
This is the same structure claim-aikins-1902-ch16-footnote-quotes-jevons-eight-syllogism-rules-verbatim-then-rejects-them describes Aikins reproducing verbatim in his Chapter XVI footnote, "The rules, as stated by Jevons, are as follows": eight numbered rules covering the same three-term/three-proposition requirement, middle-term distribution, conclusion distribution, and negative/particular premises, with the last two explicitly marked "subordinate rules" "deduced" from the first six — matching Jevons's own framing rule for rule, in the same order.
This resolves question-verify-aikins-1902-jevons-source-edition-for-conversion-and-syllogism-rules for the syllogism-rules half of that question. See claim-jevons-elementary-lessons-lesson-x-source-of-aikins-conversion-rule-citations for the companion match on the conversion-rule side, and claim-jevons-elementary-lessons-1881-printing-toc-confirms-stable-pagination-since-1870 for the independent pagination check.
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“The special rules of the syllogism are founded upon the Laws of Thought and the Canons considered in the previous Lesson. They serve to inform us exactly under what circumstances one proposition can be inferred from two other propositions, and are eight in number, as follows:—”
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