Note Footnote 1: — Chapter I

In an affirmative proposition (the normal form) S is contained in P: hence P is called the Major1 term (τὸ μεῖζον), and S the Minor (τὸ ἔλαττον), being respectively larger and smaller in extension. All difficulty about the names disappears if we remember that in bestowing them we start from the conclusion. That was the problem (προβλῆμα) or thesis in dialectic, the question in dispute.