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Goclenian (iou)



Goclenian adjective. E20.
[from Rudolph Goclenius (1547-1628), German logician who first formulated it: see -AN.]
Logic. Designating a variety of the sorites in which the order of the premisses is reversed, the subject of each proposition being the predicate of the next, the conclusion being formed of the last subject and first predicate.