 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...both premises, being the connecting link for bringing the two other terms together in the conclusion. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is in its scope the largest of the three ; the subject of the conclusion is the minor term, as being the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 886 pages
...both premises, being the connecting link for bringing the two other terms together in the conclusion. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is in its scope the largest of the three ; the subject of the conclusion ig the minor term, as being the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 876 pages
...both premises, being the connecting link for bringing the two other terms together in the conclusion. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is in its scope the largest of the three ; the subject of the conclusion is the minor term, as being the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 852 pages
...both premises, being the connecting link for bringing the two other terms together in the conclusion. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is in its scope the largest of the three; the xiitject of the conclusion is the minor term, as being the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 854 pages
...both premises, being the connecting link for bringing the two other terms together in the conclusion. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is in its scope the largest of the three ; the mljject of the conclusion is the minor term, as being the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 956 pages
...both premises, being the connecting link for bringing the two other terms together in the conclusion. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is in its scope the largest of the three; the tutgect of the conclusion is the minor term, as being the... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Logic - 1895 - 620 pages
...This third term, with which the two terms of the conclusion may be regarded as compared, is called the middle term. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, and the subject the minor term; the premiss, in which the major and middle terms are compared, is called... | |
 | Michael W. Shallo - Philosophy - 1916 - 414 pages
...of the terms united or separated in the conclusion was compared in the preceding judgments is called the middle term. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, as having the greater extension; the subject the minor term. Of the two preceding judgments, that in... | |
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The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term because it is generally of a larger extension than the minor term, or the subject. 
