A fallacy arising from the failure of the middle term of a syllogism to refer to all the members of a class in at least one premise.
Example sentencesExamples
- Or perhaps it was the fallacy called undistributed middle in syllogistic logic.
- The undistributed middle is that there are some general grounds of appeal which if they are right may be thought to have certain factual consequences.
- In syllogistic logic, failing to distribute the middle term over at least one of the other terms is the fallacy of undistributed middle.
- That seems to me to have an undistributed middle.
- That's the fallacy of the undistributed middle, or some such.