non distributio medii
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin, literally "undistributed middle".
Noun edit
non distributio medii (uncountable)
- A logical fallacy that is committed when the middle term in a categorical syllogism isn't distributed.
- 1932, Albert Jay Nock, The Theory of Education in the United States:
- An educated man must be in some sort instructed; but it is a mere non distributio medii to say that an instructed person must be an educated person.
Further reading edit
- Fallacy of the undistributed middle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia