The phrase "the subject term" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the main topic of a sentence, discussion, or document. For example: "The subject term of this paper is the long-term effects of climate change."
Briefly, only universal propositions distribute the subject term (S), and only negative propositions distribute their predicate (P).
A proposition is said to be analytic if the meaning of the predicate term is contained in the meaning of the subject term.
(3) The statement is analytic in that it merely repeats in its predicate a part or the whole of the subject term and hence tells nothing new; it is not a statement about nature but about meanings only.
Aristotle took as primary the first figure, in which the middle term (M) is in the pattern S and P being the subject term and predicate term, respectively, of the conclusion; he therefore reduced syllogisms of the second, third, and fourth figures to the first figure.
Although in the last kind of proposition the meaning of the predicate term is not contained in the meaning of the subject term, it is nevertheless possible to know the proposition independently of experience, because it expresses a condition imposed by the forms of sensibility.
Obversion, in syllogistic, or traditional, logic, transformation of a categorical proposition, or statement, into a new proposition in which (1) the subject term is unchanged, (2) the predicate is replaced by its contradictory, and (3) the quality of the proposition is changed from affirmative to negative or vice versa.
The latter are the subject terms and predicate terms of propositions.
Questions of modal logic were discussed separately with respect to modal propositions de dicto and de re; modal propositions de re were further divided into two groups depending on whether the subject terms refer to actual or possible beings.
While Ockham did not discuss unrestricted divided necessity propositions, Buridan took the subject terms of all quantified divided modal propositions as standing for possible beings if they are not restricted.
To perform the search we used the subject terms " MDM2 polymorphism(s) and tumor".
The links from the subject terms to the object terms can be represented as necessary and sufficient existential (i.e. someValuesFrom) conditions.
