minor premise

noun

Definitions

  1. The second premise in a categorical syllogism, whose subject is the minor term and whose…

    The second premise in a categorical syllogism, whose subject is the minor term and whose predicate is the middle term.

    • The minor premise in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is 'Socrates is a man'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for minor premise. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA