minor premise

It also appears in the minor premise together with the middle term.

Minor premise There is a desire for "we know not what" whose object cannot be identified.

"It is also possible that the argument should proceed from another minor premise.

Minor premise, if they were different in certain directions, the universe would be less hospitable to life.

Minor premise: A ham sandwich is better than nothing.

But the mind-set of the judge governs the minor premise."

Minor premise: these funds are administrated by certain entities which do have legal personality.

The major premise is universal; the minor premise and the conclusion are particular.

Each insisted on establishing a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion.

Minor premise: The hand touches the pen.

Minor premise: Socrates is a man.

He can't be there, minor premise.

Minor premise: Some men are mortals.

A minor premise in symbolic logic (see syllogism)

Minor premise: All goldfish are fish.

That's your minor premise.

A categorical syllogism is like a little machine built of three parts: the major premise, the minor premise and the conclusion.

An "enthymeme" would follow today's form of a syllogism; however it would exclude either the major or minor premise.

These two terms appear together in the conclusion and separately with the middle term in the major premise and minor premise, respectively.

Aristotle describes this syllogism as follows: All deliberate action is resolvable into a major and minor premise, from which the given action logically issues.

(minor premise - stated)

Its major premise seems superficially plausible, but a little thought reveals that it is too insubstantial to support the minor premises that follow it.

Like the Ten Commandments, the Constitution enshrines profound values, but necessarily omits the minor premises required to apply them."

This intentional object is represented in the descriptive minor premise of the emotional reasoning, for example, the premise "I was divorced" in the aforementioned syllogism.

An example might be that the major premise food cures hunger and the minor premise I am hungry leads to the practical conclusion of my eating food.