Sentence examples for minor terms from inspiring English sources

Indeed, he was insistent that the O.E.D. should expand its coverage of international words in English, and, although he did leave out some seemingly minor terms from his Supplement, he added many thousands of more fully researched global entries.

The spokesperson added that Burchfield "was insistent that the dictionary should expand its coverage of international words in English and, although he omitted minor terms from the supplement which he was revising and extending, he added many thousands of more fully researched international entries".

But the 1989 ruling found that even if "one or two minor terms of employment are not common to the two relevant classes of employees" that should not "disable a woman from saying that a given man in a different establishment was 'in the same employment with her".

For the former, it was her role in "Easy A," a high school comedy that dealt with, in no minor terms, the bullying of gay teens, that won her admiration, something she openly embraces.

If both premises are negative, the middle cannot establish any link between the major and minor terms.

In order for a valid conclusion to be made, the middle term must be distributed in at least one of the premises, to allow the major and minor terms be linked.

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.

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).