Definition of Dilemmatic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilemmatic

dilaurate
dilazep
dildoe
dildoed
dildoes
dildoing
dildos
dilead
dilection
dilections
dilemma
dilemmalike
dilemmas
dilemmata
dilemmatic (current term)
dilemmic
dilemna
dilepton
dileptonic
dileptons
dilettanteish
dilettanteism
dilettanteisms
dilettantes
dilettanti
dilettantish
dilettantism
dilettantisms

Literary usage of Dilemmatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in Deductive Logic: A Manual for Students by William Stanley Jevons (1880)
"HYPOTHETICAL, dilemmatic, AND OTHER KINDS OF ARGUMENTS. 1. SOME attempt will be made in the subsequent chapters on the Elements of Equational Logic to ..."

2. Institutes of Logic by John Veitch (1885)
"COMPOSITE JUDGMENTS - HYPOTHETICAL OK CONDITIONAL, DISJUNCTIVE, dilemmatic. § 320. Looking to the special relation of the subject to the predicate of a ..."

3. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"1 dilemmatic judgments are those in which a condition is found, both in the subject and in the predicate, and as thus a combination of an hypothetical form ..."

4. Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic: Including a Generalisation of Logical by John Neville Keynes (1884)
"dilemmatic arguments are more often fallacious than not. ... In other words, most dilemmatic arguments will be found to contain a false premiss. ..."

5. A Treatise on Logic: Or, The Laws of Pure Thought; Comprising Both the by Francis Bowen (1895)
"The dilemmatic, as it has two conditions, the one affecting the Subject and the other the Predicate, is obviously a combination of the two preceding forms, ..."

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