Excerpt from A Guide to Syllogism: Or a Manual Comprehending an Account of the Manner of Disputation Now Practised in the Schools at Cambridge, With Specimen of the Different Acts Adapted to the Use of the Higher Forms in Grammar Schools, and of Junior Students at the University

E. G. In reasoning on the character ofcaesar, ifi wished to ascertain whether the idea of a good man agreed with him, I might take, for a third idea, that of Tyrant.' On finding this agree with 'caesar, ' and disagree with 'good man, ' I should say that the ideas of 'caesar' and 'good man' disagreed with one another or, in other words, that 'cae sar was not a good man.' The third idea, thus employed to assist us in forming a judgment, is called a middle term.

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