minor premise

British  

noun

1. logic the premise of a syllogism containing the subject of its conclusion

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minor premise

“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

For, if not, the minor premise being affirmative, there will be illicit process of the minor term.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth

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

As A-ya showed no inclination whatever to dissent from this statement, he presently went on to his conclusion, leaving her to infer his minor premise.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

The assumption that either sex of a given species is a distinct "being" cannot probably be slid into the minor premise of the argument without some objection from the opposing counsel.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various