LessonsThe Fourth Figure: Productive Conditions, Moods and ProofsQuiz

Minor: Some reciters are teachers.
Major: No poet is a reciter.
Conclusion: Some teachers are not poets.

The minor supplies reciters who are teachers. The universal negative major excludes every reciter from being a poet, so those particular teachers are not poets.

This is a particular negative conclusion. It cannot be strengthened to “No teacher is a poet,” since the premises say nothing about all teachers.

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A negative major and particular minor

The Fourth Figure: Productive Conditions, Moods and Proofs

Minor: Some reciters are teachers.
Major: No poet is a reciter.
Conclusion: Some teachers are not poets.

The minor supplies reciters who are teachers. The universal negative major excludes every reciter from being a poet, so those particular teachers are not poets.

This is a particular negative conclusion. It cannot be strengthened to “No teacher is a poet,” since the premises say nothing about all teachers.