minor premiss

Questions about minor premiss

What does minor premiss mean?

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

What is another word for minor premiss?

Close synonyms include minor premise, 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 premiss a common word?

minor premiss 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.