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

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

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