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Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse

• A premise is defined by Aristotle as follows.
  “A premiss then is a sentence affirming or denying one thing of another.”
  

• The syllogism also contains three terms, each occurring exactly twice.

• The major term is the predicate of the conclusion, and occurs in the major premise.

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