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BARBARA

Volume 3 · 59 words · 1810 Edition

among Logicians, the firft mode of the firft figure of syllogifms. A syllogifm in barbara is one whereof all the proportions are univerfal and affirmative; the middle term being the fubject of the firft proposition, and attribute in the second.

*Examp.* Bar. Every wicked man is miserable; Ba. All tyrants are wicked men; Ra. Therefore all tyrants are miserable.