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  1. A middle term brings two disparate terms into rational relation; the simplest example is a proportion like a : b :: b : c, where the middle term b exhibits the relation between a and c. 

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Grosholz, E., Rothstein, E. Figures of Speech and Figures of Thought. Math Intelligencer 42, 15–19 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09937-0

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