Illicit minor
Illicit minor is a formal fallacy committed in a categorical syllogism that is invalid because its minor term is undistributed in the minor premise but distributed in the conclusion.This fallacy has the following argument form: Example: The minor term here is mammal, which is not distributed in the minor premise "All cats are mammals", because this premise is only defining a property of possibly some mammals (i.e., that they're cats.)However, in the conclusion "All mammals are felines", mammal is distributed (it is talking about all mammals being felines).It is shown to be false by any mammal that is not a feline; for example, a dog.This logic-related article is a stub.
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