The phrase "a minor term" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as logic, philosophy, or legal discussions where specific terms are categorized by their significance or relevance.
Example: "In the argument, the major premise is strong, but the inclusion of a minor term weakens the overall conclusion."
Alternatives: "a lesser term" or "a subordinate term".
Pr. 53a3 14), and that of the premise combinations rejected as non-syllogistic, some (five, in fact) will yield a conclusion in which the minor term is predicated of the major (An. Pr. 29a19 27).
In other words: The Commissioners plan to stick it to the middle class and small business so the wealthy can get a free ride, and it's going to cut Social Security benefits (even though Social Security is an enormously popular, self-sustaining program with a multitrillion-dollar surplus that only needs a minor long term revenue tweak).
They found a minor short term effect of blue light-filtering; thus suggesting an insignificant difference in activity at the input stage of the visual system [ 50].
The subject of the conclusion (called the minor term) also occurs in one of the premises (the minor premise).
For Navya-Nyaya, inference is definable as the knowledge caused by the knowledge that the minor term (paksha, "the hill") "possesses" the middle term (hetu, "smoke"), which is recognized as "pervaded by" the major (sadhya, "fire").
The premise containing the major term is the major premise, and the premise containing the minor term is the minor premise.
Aristotle refers to these term arrangements as figures (schêmata): Aristotle calls the term which is the predicate of the conclusion the major term and the term which is the subject of the conclusion the minor term.
Medical terminologies are replete with examples of minor term modification that can result in treatment error.
Beware of the fallacy of the illicit minor, where the minor term is undistributed in the minor premise but distributed in the conclusion.
In this example, "animal" is the major term and predicate of the conclusion, "parrot" is the minor term and subject of the conclusion, and "bird" is the middle term.
