Complete the rule on the middle term
Exercise and reference answers
- Missing parts
- Answer
- distributed
- Choices
- distributed
- affirmed
- repeated
- Answer
- undistributed
- Choices
- undistributed
- illicit
- negative
- Complete the statement
- The middle term must be {0} in at least one premise. If it never is, the argument commits the fallacy of the {1} middle.
Explanation
The condition that catches most invalid exam syllogisms. Source: Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Carveth Read (1898), public domain.