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BARACOA

Volume 3 · 98 words · 1810 Edition

town in the north-east part of the island of Cuba. W. Long. 76° 10'. N. Lat. 21° 5'.

Baralipston, among logicians, a term denoting the first indirect mode of the first figure of syllogism. A syllogism in baralipston, is when the two first propositions are general, and the third particular, the middle term being the subject in the first proposition and the predicate in the second. The following is of this kind:

BA. Every evil ought to be feared; RA. Every violent passion is an evil; LIP. Therefore something that ought to be feared is a violent passion.