All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes. Pennsylvania School Journal - Page 247 1873 Full view - About this book
...statements: two premises and a conclusion. You will likely be familiar with standard examples such as 'All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore Socrates is mortal'. The three terms of this argument, 'men', 'Socrates', and 'mortal beings', are so related in the three statements...