Before discussing the formal fallacies concerning categorical syllogism, we should first learn what is meant by a distributed term If a categorical proposition tells us something about every member of a class referred by a term, the term is distributed in the proposition8 • Before discussing the formal fallacies concerning categorical syllogism, we should first learn what is meant by “a distributed term”. • If a categorical proposition tells us something about every member of a class referred by a term, the term is distributed in the proposition