minor premise

English

Alternative forms

• minor

Noun

minor premise (plural minor premises)

1. (logic) The second premise in a categorical syllogism, whose subject is the minor term and whose predicate is the middle term.

   The minor premise in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is 'Socrates is a man'.

Synonyms

• subsumption

Coordinate terms

• major premise

Translations

premise

• Finnish: alipremissi
• French: mineure (fr) f
• Ido: minoro (io)
• Indonesian: premis minor (id)
• Polish: subsumpcja
• Romanian: premisă minoră (ro) f
• Tagalog: nakapailalim na palagay