minor premiss
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion)
Types & categories
- assumption hypernym
Parts & wholes
- syllogism part holonym
- minor term part meronym
- middle term part meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | syllogism |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | minor term |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | middle term |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | assumption |