minor premise

How To Use minor premise In A Sentence

• These are the major and minor premises on which the conclusion is based.
• Notice that the minor premise of the syllogism above is only marginally contingent upon historical analysis.
• The minor premise is this, founded on experimental knowledge -- namely, that the greatest source of profit that has been known in our times, the best proved and the most certain, is this of Maluco and Philipinas, whither come the nations of the north, and all other nations who course over this wide sea of India as far as Maluco, where they find that brown gold that they call cloves, and the white silk of China. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
• In most cases, it identifies the conclusion that is to be accepted and then goes on to identify what it to be argued for (the minor premise).
• You have to make out a major premise in this case and there is also a question as to even if you make out your major premise whether or not the minor premise is made out, given the various facts to which I referred you.
• As the external process of legal deduction, substantial reasoning solves the problem of the authenticity, rationality, and validity of the major premise and minor premise of legal deduction.
• In the process of a judge' s trial, the legal reasoning is a major premise of law modes, a minor premise of case fact identification and a deduction proof model based on the major and minor premises.
• The burden of proof theory is the minor premise (the facts) to play a role in situations of uncertainty.
• You have to establish a major premise and a minor premise.
• Deductive legal reasoning is a reasoning method which regards law as major premise, case as minor premise, and deduces conclusion from the major and minor premise.