middle term

How To Use middle term In A Sentence

• Aristotle construed the deductive stage of scientific inquiry as the interposition of middle terms between the subject and predicate terms of the statement to be proved.
• In the latter, the syllogisms involved must have middle terms that are causes of the state of affairs which is to be demonstrated.
• The two are distinct, soul being as it were the middle term between body and spirit, or the bond between the two.
• I remember a passage in Alain de Lille's medieval work, the Complaint of Nature, in which he describes sex entirely in syllogistic terms -- as in syllogisms minor and major terms are connected by a single middle terms, in sex minor terms and major terms are connected by a set series of middle terms starting with acquaintance, moving through kisses, and ending in mutual inherence. Argument in verse
• For if both premises be affirmative, _all_ their terms are undistributed, the subjects by predesignation, the predicates by position; and therefore the middle term must be undistributed, and there can be no conclusion. Logic Deductive and Inductive
• Short term, middle term and longterm development strategy guiding ideology of agricultural resources was discussed. The strategic target and development prospect were analysed.
• The cause of broad-leafed trees losing their leaves is then identified as the solidification of moisture at the leaf juncture, which can thus serve as the middle term in a causal explanation of this fact. Aristotle's Biology
• Should a reinforcement of its structure through greater unification be promoted in the short to middle term?
• Failing to distribute the middle term over at least one of the other terms is the fallacy of undistributed middle.
• The research result shows that this physical model is useful to determine the locked area along plate boundary faults and further to make the long term and middle term earthquake prediction.