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logic

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• Chrysippus used a hunting dog at a three-way fork to illustrate the disjunctive syllogism (~230 BCE), an early figure of reasoning by elimination
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · logic, stoic-logic, chrysippus, disjunctive-syllogism, history-of-logic
• Logical inference has three canonical forms: deductive, inductive, and abductive
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-06-04 · logic, philosophy, inference, reasoning, abduction
• The word 'inference' derives from Latin inferre, meaning 'to bring in, conclude, deduce'
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-06-04 · linguistics, etymology, inference, logic