That's an example of what philosophers call the undistributed middle fallacy. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
II has both middle terms undistributed and can thus be rejected. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
The term 'undistributed' serves sometimes to contradict one of these statements and sometimes to contradict the other. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
'undistributed' which we found to underlie the use of the term. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Hence it must be undistributed in the conclusion (by Rule 4). From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
That's the fallacy of the undistributed middle, or some such. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference
In the first figure, IA, OA, and OI have an undistributed middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
If the minor were particular, there would be undistributed middle. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Therefore the major term must be undistributed in the major premiss. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
They hired lawyers to find ways around the undistributed-profits tax. From Wordnik.com. [Obama threatens to follow in FDR's economic missteps] Reference
Iraq is sitting on hundreds of billions of undistributed oil revenue. From Wordnik.com. ["Who they choose as their president is the Americans' business. But it's the business of Iraqis to say what they want."] Reference
Thus undistributed earnings would, therefore, always be taxed more than 50%. From Wordnik.com. [Tax Reform] Reference
But it would be wrong; our syllogism would have a badly undistributed middle. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
When it is not so used, or is not known to be so used, it is called undistributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Therefore the middle term must be the predicate and is consequently undistributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Here we see that the affirmation of the consequent amounts to undistributed middle. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The issue of undistributed food parcels for the poor was also raised at the meeting. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In addition, Roosevelt tacked on an excess profits tax and undistributed profits tax. From Wordnik.com. [Leave the New Deal in the History Books] Reference
T.W. and one of the Valerenas had introduced the Directors to the undistributed pile. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Never Sleeps]
I think that the TV stations here get a really good price for undistributed b-movies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
Therefore the minor term is undistributed in the minor premiss, where it is predicate. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Point out what terms are distributed or undistributed in the following propositions. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
But when we say 'Men are miserable' or 'Some men are black,' the subject is undistributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
This is lawsuit number three regarding New Line and undistributed profits from the trilogy. From Wordnik.com. [Lawsuit Seeks to Derail The Hobbit, No Bilbo Casting At Comic Con | /Film] Reference
One of the problems is the MM model is that it looks at ‘equity’ as undistributed profit. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenspan’s ‘The Crisis’ and Modigliani and Miller] Reference
Since we cannot be sure which of these two is meant, the predicate is again reckoned undistributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Since the minor premiss is affirmative, the middle term, which is its predicate, is undistributed there. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The minor premiss being affirmative, the minor term, which is its predicate, will be undistributed there. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
For in them we spoke only of some poor men, since the predicate of an affirmative proposition is undistributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Prove that the number of undistributed terms in the premisses cannot exceed those in the conclusion by more than one. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The reason why O cannot be converted at all is that its subject is undistributed and that the proposition is negative. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The reason why A can only be converted per accidens is that, being affirmative, its predicate is undistributed (§ 293). From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The middle term being predicate in both premisses, one or other must be negative; else there would be undistributed middle. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
But the major being affirmative, its predicate is undistributed; and the conclusion being negative, its predicate is distributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
This fallacy, which is not uncommon in practice where the terms are complicated, is known as the fallacy of the undistributed middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
In the one case the quantity of the predicate is determined by the form of the expression as distributed, in the other as undistributed. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
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