minor premise

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

“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

Then for its minor premise it may take some plain observed fact, Humility is essential to Love.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

If both observations are correct, then we need no proof that the man of the minor premise is rational because it is self-evident.

From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue

The à posteriori, or empirical knowledge of the phenomena of the universe, in their relations to time and space, constitute the minor premise of the Theistic syllogism.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

In Camestres, however, the minor premise is negative; and, as this is impossible in Fig.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth