minor premise

Questions about minor premise

What does minor premise mean?

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

What is another word for minor premise?

Close synonyms include minor premiss, subsumption. 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 minor premise a common word?

minor 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.