Sentence examples for middle term and from inspiring English sources

We wanted to understand where we could go and then step back pragmatically to deliver innovation in the short term, the middle term, and then the longer term as well.

More detailed presentations of syllogistic included an account of the expository syllogism, which is in the third figure and has a singular middle term, and of other syllogisms with singular terms.

2. This becomes clear in the closing lines of chapter 16: "Hence in these cases the middle term and what it is explanatory of must be equal and must convert.

The second book of the work, he claims, discusses the art of definition as the way to discover demonstrations, and how it is that definition occurs as the middle term and the cause of the truth of the conclusion, in a demonstration.

While each of these three descriptions casts a different light on why the inference to God's existence is valid, Bonaventure here seems to prefer "the highest truth" because the definition of truth as "indivision" is the basis for re-conceiving the ontological argument as establishing an "indivision" between the middle term and the predicate "exists".

Find a factor pair with a sum equal to b. Look through the factor pairs and determine which set will produce the b term the middle term and the coefficient of x —when added together.

The semi-logical fallacies mostly trade on ambiguous middle terms and are therefore also logical fallacies, but their detection requires extra-logical knowledge including that of the senses of terms[4] and knowledge of the subject matter (Bk. III, §2); they include, among others, the fallacies of ambiguity, and division and composition.

It is certainly possible that, at the upper bounds of human capacity, one may find an individual blessed with "an intense purity and an intense connection to the supernal sources" such that he can intuit all or most of what humans are capable of knowing, "not by means of an uncertain tradition, but by means of middle terms and demonstrative proofs".

Aristotle calls the term shared by the premises the middle term (meson) and each of the other two terms in the premises an extreme (akron).

He added, "We have accepted a lower volume of sales as we prepare a base for middle-term and long-term growth".

"In the middle-term and long-term, that's not where things are happening," Lamothe told me.