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Major premise   /mˈeɪdʒər prˈɛmɪs/   Listen
Major premise

noun
1.
The premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion).  Synonym: major premiss.






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"Major premise" Quotes from Famous Books



... the game," said the Stockman. The Banker shoved over three stacks of patriotically assorted colors and made a memorandum. The Five howled mockery and derision, the cards danced and beckoned luringly in the mellow lamplight, the Judge pulled his coat-tail, the Major Premise tugged. Steve sat down, pulling ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... throwing that lady more on her own resources; and so forth and so on down a list of arguments obvious enough or trivial enough, but all inspired by the soul of fervour, all ennobled by the spirit of truth that lies back of the major premise that a woman should cleave to a man, forsaking all others. Orde sat back in his chair, his eyes vacant, his pen all but falling from his hand. He did not finish the letter to his mother. After a while he went upstairs to his ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White

... this was the order in which these different rocks had been formed in the beginning, great layers of these different rocks having originally been spread completely around the globe one outside another like the coats of an onion. With this as a major premise, it is not surprising that he and his enthusiastic disciples "were as certain of the origin and sequence of the rocks as if they had been present at the formation of ...
— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price



Words linked to "Major premise" :   major term, premise, syllogism, assumption, middle term, premiss



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