Each insisted on establishing a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion.
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Minor premise : Cigarettes are lawful products ( to adults ).
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In 1979, the Philosopher William Rowe provided a defense of the minor premise ( 2 ).
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An " enthymeme " would follow today's form of a syllogism; however it would exclude either the major or minor premise.
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Aristotle describes this syllogism as follows : All deliberate action is resolvable into a major and minor premise, from which the given action logically issues.
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This intentional object is represented in the descriptive minor premise of the emotional reasoning, for example, the premise I was divorced in the aforementioned syllogism.
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An alternative, starting with some major premise and adding a minor premise might randomly reach the desired conclusion given enough time, but this is not a practical experiment.
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For example, knowing that all men are mortal ( major premise ) and that Socrates is a man ( minor premise ), we may validly conclude that Socrates is mortal.
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In its earliest form, defined by Aristotle, from the combination of a general statement ( the major premise ) and a specific statement ( the minor premise ), a conclusion is deduced.
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It's a perfectly valid first-figure syllogism ( Barbara ); the second minor premise happens to be false, but that doesn't invalidate the logic . talk ) 22 : 09, 20 December 2015 ( UTC)