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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The term of a syllogism that forms the predicate of the conclusion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Logic) That term of a syllogism which forms the predicate of the conclusion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion

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