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Meaning of BOCARDO

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Bo*car"do\, n. [A mnemonic word.]
1. (Logic) A form of syllogism of which the first and third
   propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term
   a universal affirmative.
         Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the
         logicians.                            --Bowen.
2. A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in
   Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] --Latimer.
 
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