minor term

British  

noun

1. logic the subject of the conclusion of a syllogism, also occurring as the subject or predicate in the minor premise

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Example Sentences

A is the minor term, C the major, B the middle term.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

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 Gardiner, J. H.

No pages are made of paper— the conclusion would appear paradoxical, if the minor term were there taken in a different sense from that which it bore in its proper premiss.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

If the middle term, as thus restricted, is still found in the minor term, the argument is valid; if not, it fails.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

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 Mill, John Stuart