Talk:Authors/Ockham/Summa Logicae/Book III-1/Chapter 6
From The Logic Museum
Jump to navigationJump to searchDabitis: from the mnemonic,
Barbara celarent darii ferio baralipton Celantes dabitis fapesmo frisesomorum Cesare camestres festino baroco Darapti felapton disamis datisi bocardo ferison.
See https://medievallogic.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/syllogism-mnemonics/
Sherwood explains the mnemonic names as follows:
In these lines ‘a’ signifies a universal affirmative proposition, ‘e’ a universal negative, ‘i’ a particular affirmative, ‘o’ a particular negative, ‘s’ simple conversion [conversio simplex], ‘p’ conversion by limitation [conversio per accidens], ‘m’ transposition of the premisses, and ‘b’ and ‘r’ when they are in the same word signify reduction per impossibile. The first two lines are devoted to the first figure, the four words of the third line to the second figure, and all the other words to the third figure.
