minor premise

noun

1. logic the premise of a syllogism containing the subject of its conclusion

Example Sentences

“And all teenage boys are human beings. That is my minor premise, controversial though it may be. And if my major and minor premises are so, sir, what is your conclusion?”

From Literature

I concede the minor premise, but the major only with distinction.

From Project Gutenberg

Then for its minor premise it may take some plain observed fact, Humility is essential to Love.

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Actually the method of reasoning is essentially different, for the minor premise is not obtained by showing that all the elements of the concept M are found in C, but only some of them.

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If both observations are correct, then we need no proof that the man of the minor premise is rational because it is self-evident.

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