Sentence examples for two major premises from inspiring English sources

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.

It's rooted in two major premises, which I would summarize as follows: 1) The core economic challenge facing the American experiment is not income inequality per se, but rather stratification and stagnation — weak mobility from the bottom of the income ladder and wage stagnation for the middle class.

Of those participants agreeing with statement 11 'New traits within a population appear at random'), 94.0% (n = 47) also agreed with statement 14, indicating that 61.8% (n = 47) of all participants correctly understand these two major premises of natural selection.

His deflection of possible criticisms results from two major premises: selecting the proper random variable and "reference class" to make predictions, and the recognition that if one does not know the law that governs a process, then the best prediction that can be made is his own formula.

Although there are 256 possible forms (4 possible variations (a, e, i, o) for each part, three parts (major premise, minor premise, conclusion), and four figures, so 4*4*4*4=256) of syllogism, only 19 of them are valid.

A syllogism has three parts: major premise, minor premise, and conclusion.

Earlier this year, for example, they proposed two major pieces of legislation premised on the notion that illegal downloading is stealing: the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

There are four major on-premise outlet types in Philadelphia: clubs (5.9%), distributors (5.6%), eating places (6.5%), and restaurants and bars (75%).

There are two major types of liquor license required by premises that sell alcohol.

The premise of the HEART2D trial was that the two major A1C components, prandial and fasting/premeal glycemia, may affect cardiovascular risk differently (3).

The article, he says, represents a glorification of nonpartisanship and endorses the "premise that the truth lies somewhere between the positions of two major American political parties at any given moment".