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

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

In the next place, the minor premise of this argument is assumed.

From Arrows of Freethought by Foote, G. W. (George William)

I concede the minor premise, but the major only with distinction.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin

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