Traditional Logic Memoria Press Practice Exam

In a categorical syllogism, three terms are involved: two terms that actually appear in the conclusion (the subject and the predicate) and a third term that links the two premises. The linking term, called the middle term, must show up in both premises to connect the other two terms, but it cannot appear in the conclusion. That’s why the correct description is the term that appears in both premises but not in the conclusion. The term that does appear in the conclusion is one of the two main terms (subject or predicate), and those are the ones that actually form the conclusion itself, not the linker.