Editing Term logic (section)

== Term ==
A [[Term (logic)|term]] (Greek ὅρος ''horos'') is the basic component of the proposition. The original meaning of the ''horos'' (and also of the Latin ''terminus'') is "extreme" or "boundary". The two terms lie on the outside of the proposition, joined by the act of affirmation or denial.

For early modern [[logician]]s like Arnauld (whose ''[[Port-Royal Logic]]'' was the best-known text of his day), it is a psychological entity like an "idea" or "[[concept]]". [[John Stuart Mill|Mill]] considers it a word. To assert "all Greeks are men" is not to say that the concept of Greeks is the concept of men, or that word "Greeks" is the word "men". A [[proposition]] cannot be built from real things or ideas, but it is not just meaningless words either.