undistributed

/ ˌʌndɪsˈtrɪbjʊtɪd /

adjective

logic (of a term) referring only to some members of the class designated by the term, as doctors in some doctors are overworked
commerce (of a profit) not paid in dividends to the shareholders of a company but retained to help finance its trading

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That an extreme, if undistributed in a Premise, may not be distributed in the Conclusion.

Nellie was eating chocolate, undistributed remains of the night's benevolence.

It will be seen that the Predicate term of a Negative proposition is always distributed, of an Affirmative, always undistributed.

But it would be wrong; our syllogism would have a badly undistributed middle.

Moreover, not till a man's work is translated can we uncover all the unconscious cases of "undistributed middle."

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