minor premise
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“And all teenage boys are human beings. That is my minor premise, controversial though it may be. And if my major and minor premises are so, sir, what is your conclusion?”
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
The assertion in the minor premise is that the individual named Socrates possesses the former attributes; and it is concluded that he possesses also the attribute mortality.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
The reviewer says, that if the major premise included the conclusion, “we should be able to affirm the conclusion without the intervention of the minor premise; but every one sees that that is impossible.”
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
If for our minor premise we affirm that here is a normal man, we do so on the ground of observation.
From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue
The minor term is the subject of the minor premise 130 and the subject of the conclusion.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
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