minor premise

Questions about minor premise

What is another word for minor premise?

It depends which minor premise you mean. In the sense “the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)”, the synonyms are minor premiss, subsumption. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of minor premise?

WordNet records no antonym for minor premise. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for minor premise come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of minor premise

• Full entry for minor premiseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for minor premiseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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