The primary stress falls on the penultimate — next to the last — syllable, with lighter accents on the first and third syllables: RASH-ee-AHS-i-NAY-shin.
—Charles Harrington Elster. There is No Zoo in Zoology and Other Beastly Mispronunciations. New York: Collier Books, 1988, 127.
In A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, John Stuart Mills asserted the essential connection between ratiocination and the syllogism: "There is a [narrow] sense, in which the name reasoning is confined to the form of inference which is termed ratiocination, and of which the syllogism is the general type."
are the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, especially Prior Analysis and Posterior Analysis. Although the Ancient Greeks had no separate word for logic as distinct from language and reason, Aristotle's newly coined word "syllogism" (syllogismos) identified logic clearly for the first time as a distinct field of study. When Aristotle referred to "the logical" (hê logikê), he was referring more broadly to rational thought,
Aristotle. A detail from the fresco
The School of Athens by Raphael.