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
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 Read, Carveth
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
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 Logic, the letter A is used as a symbol for the universal affirmative proposition in the general form ``all x is y.''
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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