universal affirmative
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Consider the following universal affirmative statement: “All games involve a winner and a loser.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The first of the eleven moods, AAA, is excluded by the rule that the conclusion cannot be a universal affirmative.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
He presupposes a Syllogism in the first Figure with an universal affirmative conclusion, which reasons, of course, from an universal, which universal is to be taken as proved by Induction.
From Ethics by Aristotle
Therefore, writing x for 'devils,' y for 'ugly,' and ȳ for 'not-ugly,' we may express A., the universal affirmative, thus: A. xȳ = 0.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
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
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