Definition of Middle term

1. Noun. The term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion.

Generic synonyms: Term
Group relationships: Major Premise, Major Premiss, Minor Premise, Minor Premiss, Subsumption

Lexicographical Neighbors of Middle Term

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middle schools
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middle supraclavicular nerve
middle suprarenal artery
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middle temporal convolution
middle temporal gyrus
middle temporal sulcus
middle temporal vein
middle term (current term)
middle thyroid vein
middle transverse rectal fold
middle trunk of brachial plexus
middle turbinated bone
middle umbilical fold
middle umbilical ligament
middle voice
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middle youth
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middlebox
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middlebreaker

Literary usage of Middle term

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

1. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"It has no proper middle term ; the conclusion in which it results is the first or major propo- il est nécessaire alors que A soit à В :" to the same purpose ..."

2. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"... major is always equal to the middle term; since, whether it be thus or thus taken from the commencement, or be so made by him who denies it, ..."

3. Psychologic Foundations of Education: An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the by William Torrey Harris (1898)
"Here man is the middle term, and it is the subject in both premises. In the third figure, as used in sense-perception, the middle term is the object ..."

4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1884)
"The Figure of a syllogism depends upon the situation of the middle term in the ... In the first figure the middle term is the subject of the major and ..."

5. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"Fallacies connected 'with the use of the middle term. We now refer to another class of fallacies, which should be treated of in the present connection—those ..."

6. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"If four or more terms are used, no middle term would appear as a common measure, and, consequently, no conclusion could be reached. 2. ..."

7. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"living creature the middle term. Also of the premises, that in which the ... If the middle term be not in both the pre- syllogism to mises determined to one ..."

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