Welcome to Syllog

What is it?

Syllog is a web-based tool for teaching various forms of logic, including Aristotelian syllogistic logic.

It is comprised of two parts:

Where can I get it?

From the project page.

Try it!

Please visit this link to try the student-facing applet.

Your answers will not be logged.

What are the license terms?

The source code is released under the MIT license:

Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Peter Oehrstroem and Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Who are the people behind it?

Dr. Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen of Aalborg University wrote the Django backend and some of the Prolog code.

Prof. Dr. Peter Øhrstrøm, also of Aalborg University, wrote most of the Prolog code, and was the originator of the main ideas behind this project.

Is there some documentation?

Yes.

Is there support?

You could try to write to Dr. Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen with your questions.

Who are your sponsors?

SourceForge.Net kindly hosts the project as far as web-presence file downloads, and source code repository, etc. are concerned.

Aalborg University, Department of Communication and Psychology, employs most of the poeple who have worked on this project.