major premise

How to use major premise in a sentence

• Aristotle reasoned without sufficient certainty of the major premise of his syllogisms.

  Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John Lord

• The major term is usually the predicate of the major premise and the predicate of the conclusion.

  English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

• If the major premise of this syllogism be granted, the conclusion is unquestionable.

  English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

• The city casuist might have smiled at the major premise—and laughed at the ingenuous conclusion.

  McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 | Various

• It may be stated, simply, as "the unwarranted assumption of a premise, generally the major premise."

  Your Mind and How to Use It | William Walker Atkinson