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Minor premise

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  1. 1
    The second premise in a categorical syllogism, whose subject is the minor term and whose predicate is the middle term.

    "The minor premise in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is 'Socrates is a man'."

  2. 2
    the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) wordnet

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