Sentence examples for minor premises from inspiring English sources
noun
Plural of minor premise
Accepting the major and minor premises as true, wouldn't the conclusion have to be, "Therefore, since America is exceptional, socialism in America would not breed mediocrity"?
He also accepted syllogisms with possibility propositions as minor premises to be productive.
Perhaps drawing such a conclusion consists in nothing less than performing the action called for by the major and minor premises.
At one extreme is the idea that we can apprehend a priori a general principle from which we can derive particular moral claims using non-moral facts as minor premises.
At various points, we find Avicenna presenting Aristotle's decisions (about mixes with possibility propositions as minor premises) as failures to implement general principles (Avicenna al-Masâ'il al-Gharîba: [1974] 94.20, 94.22, 95.52, 95.11 95.11).
Similarly, in mixed first-figure syllogisms with contingent major and assertoric minor premises, the assertoric premise must be simpliciter assertoric, but this time the criteria are that the predicate belongs to the subject per se, invariably or by natural contingency (16va, 21ra, 22ra, 25ra).
The subject of the conclusion (called the minor term) also occurs in one of the premises (the minor premise).
One example may be cited, that of the fallacy of illicit major (or minor) premise, which violates the rules for "distribution".
In the argument "All insects have six legs; therefore, all wasps have six legs," the minor premise, "All wasps are insects," is suppressed.
Dilemma, in syllogistic, or traditional, logic, any one of several forms of inference in which there are two major premises of hypothetical form and a disjunctive ("either... or") minor premise.
For example, "Felapton" is the mnemonic term to signify the mood in which the major premise (the premise containing the predicate of the conclusion) of the syllogism is an E proposition, the minor premise (the premise containing the subject of the conclusion) is an A, and the conclusion is an O.
