Episyllogism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Episyllogism \Ep`i*syl"lo*gism\, n. [Pref. epi- + syllogism.]
     (Logic)
     A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a
     proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding
     syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism.
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