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

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 Stock, St. George William Joseph

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