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Definition of Major premiss

1. Noun. The premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Major Premiss

Literary usage of Major premiss

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"as he consciously recollects the major premiss alone, ... We may, for example, have, as our major premiss, " all men ought to take dry food," and, ..."

2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"as he consciously recollects the major premiss alone, ... We may, for example, have, as our major premiss, " all men ought to take dry food," and, ..."

3. Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic: Including a Generalization of Logical by John Neville Keynes (1887)
"For if it were negative, the major premiss would have to be affirmative by rule 5 ... (2) Tlu major premiss must be universal. For the middle term cannot be ..."

4. Psychology: Normal and Morbid by Charles Arthur Mercier (1901)
"Although any additional constancy that we can add, by establishing a major premiss, goes to confirm and reinforce the assurance of the conclusion, ..."

5. Distinction and the Criticism of Beliefs by Alfred Sidgwick (1892)
"The fact that any so-called non-A contains the germ of A is proof that the name non-A is there in strictness wrongly applied- Middle Term and major premiss ..."

6. The Process of Argument: A Contribution to Logic by Alfred Sidgwick (1893)
"THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE major premiss [See p. 23] THE chief direct use of the doctrine that the major premiss must be strictly universal is as against our ..."

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