A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn.
1 The major premiss in this shape is vaguer than in the former.
2 Strategic planning of the attack in subsequent months followed from this premiss .
3 For the sovereignty of human reason this is a most dangerous premiss .
4 Therefore the major term must be undistributed in the major premiss .
5 If the major premiss were a particular negative, the conclusion would be negative.
6 Therefore it must be distributed in the major premiss , where it is subject.
7 Prove that wherever the minor premiss is negative, the major must be universal.
8 Is the suppressed premiss in any case disputable on material grounds?
9 But the major premiss , being 1, does not distribute either subject or predicate.
10 The major premiss may be either A, E, I or O.
11 But the first premiss is certainly the case; therefore so must the consequent be.
12 But the major term is subject in the major premiss .
13 If the major premiss were particular, there would be illicit process of the major.
14 Therefore the minor term is undistributed in the minor premiss , where it is predicate.
15 But the major premiss being particular, the major term could not be distributed there.
16 If this premiss be granted-andcertainly none will deny it-Mr.
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