major term
Britishnoun
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Therefore the major term must be undistributed in the major premiss.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
Therefore the major term would be distributed in the conclusion.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
The proof of this rule is the same as in the first figure, the two figures being alike so far as the major term is concerned.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
In other words, if both the major term and the minor term lie outside the middle term, the syllogism gives us no means of knowing what their relation is to each other.
From The Making of Arguments by J. H. Gardiner
The premise which contains the middleterm and the major term is called the major premise; that which contains the middleterm and the minor term is called the minor premise.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by John Stuart Mill
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