But is it only in such moments that we deliberately resolve a situation into its elements, and abstract an 'essence' to serve as a middle term in inference?
Physic (taking it according to the derivation, and not according to our idiom for medicine) is situate in a middle term or distance between natural history and metaphysic.
So, then, this art of judgment is but the reduction of propositions to principles in a middle term.
If these two lists coincide in any point, a middle term will be found for the construction of a good syllogism in the First figure.
As the comparison of two terms by means of a third or middle term.
The major and minor terms are called the Extremes, as opposed to the Mean or Middle Term.
For if the middle term is not used in either premiss in its whole extent, we may be referring to one part of it in one premiss and to quite another part of it in another, so that there will be really no middle term at all.
An immediate inference is so called because it is effected without the intervention of a middle term, which is required in mediate inference.
The inference is not mediate, through comparison with a common or middle term, but immediate, whereas the syllogism is, in all its forms, a process of mediate inference.
Hence the rule, that the middle term must be distributed, or taken in its completeness, to include the whole class which it properly denotes, at least once in the premises.
The first figure occurs when the middle term is the subject of one premiss and the predicate of the other.
Those who maintain the authority of inference accept the sign or middle term as the causer of knowledge, which middle term must be found in the minor and be itself invariably connected with the major.
The Major Term and the Middle Term must appear in the Major Premise.
Some have defined it as: "reasoning without a middle term.
The Minor Term and the Middle Term must appear in the Minor Premise.
In deduction we begin with a general truth, which is already proven or provisionally assumed, and seek to connect it with some particular case by means of a middle term, or class of objects, known to be equally connected with both.
These are called the extermes; and the third term, introduced as a common measure between them, is called the mean or middle term.
Middle term (Logic), that term of a syllogism with which the two extremes are separately compared, and by means of which they are brought together in the conclusion.
Logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
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