Sentence examples for middle terms from inspiring English sources

In his Hetuchakra ("The Wheel of 'Reason' "), Dignaga set up a matrix of nine types of middle terms, of which two yield valid conclusions, two contradictory, and the rest uncertain conclusions.

He also introduced a threefold distinction of valid middle terms: the middle must be related to the major either by identity ("This is a tree, because this is an oak") or as cause and effect ("This is fiery, because it is smoky"), or the hetu is a nonperception from which the absence of the major could be inferred.

The discussion of definition in effect bore on the middle terms of demonstrative syllogisms.

Bonaventure's argument runs from the subject "God," through the middle terms "the best" and "absolutely complete being," to the predicate "exists".

In the latter, the syllogisms involved must have middle terms that are causes of the state of affairs which is to be demonstrated.

Estimation for difference between the right and middle terms of (1.1) when the derivative of the function satisfies a Lipschitz condition is our next aim.

What happens when the middle term is removed?

So yes, the narrator is the middle term between Haffner and the reader.

The two remaining term positions in the premises are filled by the same term (the middle term).

He predicted that in the short term Mr. Berlusconi would hold on, but that "in the middle term it's an unsustainable situation".

"In the middle term the high-minded goal has devolved into what seem to be quotidian, mechanical, and ordinary drudgery," Mamet writes.