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Mark the term each clue names

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    The term shared by both premises, by which the other two are compared.
    Item
    Middle term
  2. Clue
    The term standing as predicate of the conclusion.
    Item
    Major term
  3. Clue
    The term standing as subject of the conclusion.
    Item
    Minor term
  4. Clue
    The evidentiary propositions offered to prove the point.
    Item
    Premises
  5. Clue
    The proposition established by comparing two others.
    Item
    Conclusion
  6. Clue
    An argument with one premise, or its conclusion, left unstated.
    Item
    Enthymeme
  7. Clue
    A chain of arguments whose middle conclusions are all suppressed.
    Item
    Sorites
  8. Clue
    A syllogism with a reason attached to one or both of its premises.
    Item
    Epicheirema
  9. Clue
    A specious argument that wears the form but is not really valid.
    Item
    Parasyllogism
Instructions
Read each call, tap its term on the board. Three in a line is bingo.

Explanation

_Source: Carveth Read, Logic: Deductive and Inductive (1914, public domain), Chapter IX, Formal Conditions of Mediate Inference, section 2_
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