But before I proceed in my attempt to define and elucidate the nature of this reciprocal action, and show how it is possible or generally conceivable, it will be necessary to premise one essential remark.
I must here, however, premise a second preliminary remark.
But before entering on this field of our labors, I would premise one general remark.
But here we would premise the remark, that the principle with which we set out, of the triple nature and division of man's being, is confirmed by the existence of a corresponding order and diversity in the fine arts.
The ultimate result to which they hoped to come by the aid of this premise was simply the negation of the suprasensible.
If people would start from the major premise that misrepresentations, if such exist, are unconscious errors, much trouble would be spared.
He adds: "In order to determine the cardinal data of ancient Irish history, it is necessary to premise a synopsis of Coemhain's System of Chronology.
Naturally, you are inclined to inquire as a premise to the questions that open this chapter, What are the themes or subjects that offer themselves as best suited to playlet requirements?
These are the roots from which the playlet springs--the premise of its problem.
I may premise that five cubes of the same size as those used in the following experiments were placed for the sake of comparison at the same time on wet moss close to the plants of Drosera.
Before giving my experiments, it may be well to premise that crystallised phosphate of ammonia, such as I used, contains 35.
With respect to the following experiments, I must premise that the leaves, both those placed in the solutions and in water, were taken from plants which had been kept in a very warm greenhouse during the winter.
The adjustment of a wild animal mind to conditions unknown to its ancestors is through the process of self-education, and by logical reasoning from premise to conclusion.
In the present instance, the necessary premise is the very definition of unity and simplicity; the other expresses the fact experienced, that is, the nature of the thought, as it is revealed in consciousness.
First of all, we must premise that velocity is not something absolute, but a relation.
So would we all say if the minor premise were true--"The good State is impossible under private capital.
A belief in a State where even this will be realized is deeply implanted in human nature, and Socialism itself might easily get a major premise from it.
Let us premise that scientific criticism, which has no concern with Unitarian predilections, stands quite impartially towards the question of Gospel dates.
Having faced that fact, it becomes sound and sensible to accept the premise and then see what sort of niche you can carve out of the new order.
What I mean is that they cannot even question their own sanity in the first premise of postulated argument.
Most men have an easy method with turtle soup, and I had no misgiving but that if I could bring my first premise to bear I should prove the better reasoner.
I shall, therefore, merely premise that I use the word "thought" in the same sense as that in which it is generally used by people who say that they think this or that.
Before then I enter upon the particular Examination of any of his Miracles, I will premise two or three general Assertions of the Fathers about them.
As the premise is demonstrated to be unsound by the construction we have given the statute," these arguments need no further notice.
Nevertheless, excentric as the centre of gravity had now become, it might have been measurably readjusted had the privileged classes been able to reason correctly from premise to conclusion.
I need only premise further, that the stone itself is a goodly block of metamorphick sandstone, and that the Runes resemble very nearly the ornithichnites or fossil bird-tracks of Dr.
Why should we be so careful when at the end of all things nothing remains of what was once Nicolai Tolstoi?
This Emerson with his clearness of spiritual vision, saw, and this premise he subjected to the microscopic lens of his penetrating intellect.
The major premise of this demonstration is intelligible from its terms; the minor is confirmed by Christ and the Church.
But we must reply to it by making a distinction against the major premise of the syllogism which they employ.
In fact, by a vigorous deduction from his premise that the value of commodities is measured by the mass of labour incorporated in them, Marx arrives at the fundamental and logical distinction between constant capital and variable capital.
For the theory is wholly based upon the premisethat the conversion of wage capital into technical capital is competent to bring about the permanent unemployment of labour, or definitively to reduce the demand for labour.
If eachpremise dealt with exactly half the Middle, thus barely distributing it between them, there would be no logical proposition inferrible.
For thus to explain the Modus tollens, reduce it to the Modus ponens (contrapositing the major premiseand obverting the minor): Celarent.
To reduce a Mood of any other Figure to the form of the First, then, we must so manipulate its premises that the Middle Term shall be subject of the major premise and predicate of the minor premise.
General Canons of the Syllogism 108 Definitions of Categorical Syllogism; Middle Term; Minor Term; Major Term; Minor and Major Premise (p.
The minor premise is an hypothesis that the preparation contains X.
In Camestres, however, the minorpremise is negative; and, as this is impossible in Fig.
In the rhetorical use of the Dilemma, it may be observed that the disjunction in the minor premise ought to be obvious, or (at any rate) easily acceptable to the audience.
Again, the alternatives of the disjunctive minor premisemay be affirmative or negative: if affirmative, the Dilemma is called Constructive; and if negative, Destructive.
If the premise thus constituted contain the predicate of the conclusion, the Enthymeme was of the First Order; if it contain the subject of the conclusion, the Enthymeme was of the Second Order.
Two Moods are usually recognised the Modus ponens, in which the antecedent of the hypothetical major premise is affirmed; and the Modus tollens [sic], in which its consequent is denied.
These rulings are based on the premise expressed in Hans v.
On the premisethat a utility is entitled to demand a rate schedule that will yield a "fair return upon the value" of the property which it employs for public convenience, the Court in 1898, in Smyth v.
A further premise was the Scriptural revelation of God's purpose as to man, with all the contents of that revelation touching the overweening importance of man's deathless soul.
Space is not an attribute of God, as Clarke maintained, and no argument for the divine existence can be constructed from this premise (see pages 85, 86).
The minor premise expresses a working-principle of all science, namely, that all things have their uses, that order pervades the universe, and that the methods of nature are rational methods.
