universal affirmative

American  

noun

Logic.

1. a proposition of the form “All S is P.” A, a

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Example Sentences

Consider the following universal affirmative statement: “All games involve a winner and a loser.”

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The reason why a universal affirmative, which is of course infinitely the most important form of proposition, can only be proved in the first figure may be seen as follows.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

Only if it be known from external or non-logical sources that the predicate also is distributed can there be simple conversion of a universal affirmative.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

The first of the eleven moods, AAA, is excluded by the rule that the conclusion cannot be a universal affirmative.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

In logical language, in order to disprove a "universal affirmative," it is enough to prove its contradictory, which is a "particular negative."

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)