major premise

What does major premise mean?

major premise means "the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion)".

What is another word for major premise?

Close synonyms include major premiss. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is major premise a common word?

major premise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for major premise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.