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illicit minor

A syllogism whose minor term is distributed in the conclusion but not in its premise.

The fallacy of illicit minor occurs when the conclusion says something about all members of the minor term's class but the minor premise did not.

Examples

  • "All squares are rectangles. All squares are shapes. So all shapes are rectangles."

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