Premiss Sentence Examples

In analysing the syllogism, he first says that a premiss is an affirmative or negative sentence, and then that a term is that into which a premiss is dissolved, i.e.

In the syllogism " Every man is mortal and Socrates is a man," if in the minor premiss the copula " is " were not disengaged from the predicate " man," there would not be one middle term " man " in the two premisses.

I start from the premiss that subjectivity always precedes objectivity.

The crucial premiss of this argument is thus that sameness of truth-conditions entails sameness of ontological commitment.

In the first stanza, Gunn briefly introduces the general premiss of the poem, which is fully developed in the fourth stanza.

It will suffice to mention here that Peano's fourth premiss of arithmetic does not hold for infinite cardinals or for infinite ordinals.