Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

undistributed middle term

Japanese translation:

非周延の中名辞

Added to glossary by sasuke
Apr 16, 2005 03:07
19 yrs ago
English term

undistributed middle term

English to Japanese Other Philosophy
But the child's dependency on the mother is only temporary, and one cannot conclude that because parts are inside the whole, and the embryo is inside the mother, the embryo is a part of the mother any more than one can conclude that because all turkeys are born from eggs and all chickens are born from eggs, all turkeys are chickens. Such logic is invalid and involves an undistributed middle term.
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非周延の中名辞

三段論法(Syllogism)における用語。

middle termとは第一前提と結論を媒介する第二前提(中名辞)を指します。

三段論法ではdistributedは周延と約されています。undistributed は非周延と訳されるケースが一般的です。

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Note added at 2005-04-16 04:16:43 (GMT)
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次のサイトをご参照ください。

http://www.geocities.com/xenu_rules/formal-undistributed-mid...
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/‾asanami/sandan.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Kazuo SAWADA : もっと分かり易く言えば、sasukeさんの例文中(全ての七面鳥は卵から生まれる、全ての鶏は卵から生まれる、従って七面鳥は鶏である、における卵がmiddle termに相当し、最後の結論においてこのmiddle termがはずされ(undistributed)て錯誤をもたらすのです。
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謝謝。その通りですね。
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