CHAPTER L 477. Our Creator most be worshipped. God is our Creator. Therefore God must be worshipped. The comparison of this third idea, with the to distinct parts (Attie question, usuallyrequires'twopropositions, which are, called the premises -: the third proposition which is, drawn from them is the conclusion, wherein the question itself is answered, and the subject and predicate joined either in the negative or the afli'rmative. The foundation of all affïrmotite'eonclustons is laid in this- generalträth¡ that so far as two proposed ideas agree to any third idea, they agree also among themselves. The character of Creator agrees to God, and worship egressto a Creator, there -, Ore worship agrees to God. The foundation of all negative conclusions is this, that . Where one of the two proposed ideas agree with the third idea,. and the other disagrees with it, they must needs disagree so far also with one another ; as, if no sinners are happy, and if anger are happy, then angels are not sinners. Thus it appears what is the strict and just notion of a syl- logism : It is a sentence or argument made up of three propo- sitions, so disposed, as that the last is necessarily inferred from tlióSe wlìieli go before, as ih the instances Which have been just mentioned. In the constitution of a syllogism two things may he consi- dered; viz. the matter and the form of it. The shatter of which a syllogism is made up, is three pro- positions ; and these three propositions are made; up of three ideas or terms variously joined. The three terms are called the remote matiér' of a syllogism ; and the three propositions the proxime or immediate matter of it. The three terms are named the major, the minor, and the middle. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term, because it is generally of a larger extension than the minor term, or the subject. The ma- jór and minor terms are called the extremes. The middle term is die third idea, invented and disposed in two propositions, in such a manner as to spew the connection between the major and minor term its the conclusion ; for which reason the middle term itself is sometimes called the argument. That proposition which contains the predicate of the conclu- sion, connected with the middle term, is usually called the major prbpo'sition, whereas the minor proposition connects the middle team with the subject of the conclusion, and is sometimes called the assumption. Note, This exact distinction of the several parts of a syllo- gism, and of the major and minor terms connected with - the mid- dle term in the major and minor propositions, does chieflybelong
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