universal affirmative

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noun

Logic.

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

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universal affirmative

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

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

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 universal affirmative "everybody says he's a duck" is crushed instantly by proving the particular negative "Peter says he's a goose," which is equivalent to "Peter does not say he's a duck."

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

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

It suffices to prove every kind of conclusion, and is the only figure in which a universal affirmative proposition can be established.

From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock