💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Major term"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| major | Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest. |
| minor termnoun | (logic) The subject of the conclusion in a categorical syllogism. |
| termnoun | That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. |
| syllogismnoun | (logic) An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion. |
| conclusionnoun | The end, finish, close or last part of something. |
| prosyllogismnoun | (logic) A syllogism that is preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism. |
| middle termnoun | (logic) The term of a syllogism that appears in both the major premise and the minor premise, but not in the conclusion. |
| membernoun | One who belongs to a group. |
| superpredicatenoun | (logic) A kind of relation between predicates. |
| term logicnoun | (logic) An approach to logic that splits propositions into two terms—subject and predicate. |
| assumptionnoun | The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim. |
| minor premisenoun | (logic) The second premise in a categorical syllogism, whose subject is the minor term and whose predicate is the middle term. |
| silogimenoun | Obsolete form of syllogism. [(logic) An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion.] |
| episyllogismnoun | (logic) A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism (the prosyllogism). |
| consecutionnoun | (logic) The relation of consequent to antecedent. |
| soritesnoun | (logic, rhetoric) A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next. |
| polysyllogismnoun | (logic) A number of propositions that, together, constitute a sequence of syllogisms |
| sequiturnoun | A logical conclusion or consequence of facts. |
| consectarynoun | That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible. |
| inversenoun | An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards. |
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