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Middle term

noun

The term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion.

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... Billiard-table which we keep for smaller wights, and sometimes refresh our own mature fatigues with taking a hand at), not being able to hit a ball he had iterate aimed at, he cried out, "I cannot hit that beast." Now the balls are usually called men, but he felicitously hit upon a middle term, a term of approximation and imaginative reconciliation, a something where the two ends, of the brute matter (ivory) and their human and rather violent personification into men, might meet, as I take it, illustrative of that Excellent remark in a certain Preface about Imagination, ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas

... his victory gave entrance to three hundred thousand crusaders, an account which may allow some scope for losses and desertion, but which clearly detects much exaggeration in the review of Nice. In the description of Antioch, [90] it is not easy to define a middle term between her ancient magnificence, under the successors of Alexander and Augustus, and the modern aspect of Turkish desolation. The Tetrapolis, or four cities, if they retained their name and position, must have left a large vacuity in a circumference of twelve miles; and that measure, ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

Words linked to "Middle term" : term, minor premise, subsumption, minor premiss, major premiss, major premise