 | Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1802 - 310 pages
...fourth figure, wherein the middle term is predicated in the m;;jor proposition, and fub*je£\ed in the minor : but this is a very indirect manner of concluding, and is never ufed in the fciences, nor in human life, and therefore I call it ufelefs. Some logicians will allow... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 320 pages
...also a fourth figure, wherein the middle term is predicated in the major proposition, and subjected in the minor : but this is a very indirect manner of concluding, and is never used in the sciences, nor in human life, and therefore I call it useless. Some logicians will allow it to be nothing else... | |
 | Levi Hedge - Logic - 1816 - 234 pages
...second, it is the predicate, and in the third, the subject of both the premises. In the fourth, it is the predicate of the major premise, and the subject of the minor. Each of the four figures had several modes, which were designated by the vawels A, E, I, O ; characters,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1822 - 312 pages
...subject of both premises when the syllogism will be of the third figure ; (See Art. 545.J Or, it may be the predicate of the major premise, and the subject of the minor, when the syllogism will be of the fourth figure. Carol. As the middle term never appears in the conclusion,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1835 - 312 pages
...subject of both premises, when the syllogism will be of the third figure (see Art. 545) ; Or it may be the predicate of the major premise, and the subject of the minor, when the syllogism will be of the fourth figure . Coral. As the middle term never appears in the conclusion,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Logic - 1837 - 312 pages
...subject of both premises, when the syllogism will be of the third figure (see Art. 545) ; Or it may be the predicate of the major premise, and the subject of the minor, when the syllogism will be of the fourth figure. Carol. As the middle term never appears in the conclusion,... | |
 | Richard Whately - Logic - 1854 - 410 pages
...middle- term is the predicate of both premises : in the third, the subject of both ; in the fourth, the predicate of the major premise and the subject of the minor ; This figure is the most awkward and unnatural of all, being the very reverse of the first. Note,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - Logic - 1856 - 270 pages
...it may be the subject of both premises, when the syllogism will be of the third figure ; or, it may be the predicate of the major premise, and the subject of the minor, •when the syllogism will be of the fourth figure. As the middle term never appears in the conclusion,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - Logic - 1856 - 266 pages
...propositions, or premises, as they are sometimes called. It is twice used in the premises ; it may be either the predicate of the major premise, and the subject of the minor; or, it may be the subject of the major premise, and predicate of the minor. In like manner the major... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 1857 - 400 pages
...predicate of both extremes ; that in which it is the subject of both ; finally, that in which it is the predicate of the major premise and the subject of the minor. When we met with the statement of Sir William Hamilton, that science requires the " final abolition... | |
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... the middle term is the predicate of the major premise and the subject of the minor premise, •classification of moods ll:51a; tables •classification of valid forms 17:8921': table • logic history from antiquity 11:581... 
