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
III. the middle term is subject of both premises; so that, to reduce its Moods to the First Figure, it may be enough to convert the minor premise.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
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)
In Camestres, however, the minor premise is negative; and, as this is impossible in Fig.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
In the fourth figure the middle term is the subject of the minor premise and the predicate of the major.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart
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