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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] (see

) +

any thing received, in logic, an assumption. Cf.

(Logic)

A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See

A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.