Sentence examples for a universal proposition from inspiring English sources

Note that if a universal proposition (affirmative or negative) is true, its contradictory is false, and so the subcontrary of that contradictory is true.

Existential import, in syllogistic, the logical implication by a universal proposition (i.e., a proposition of the form "All S is P" or "No S is P") of the corresponding particular statement (i.e., "Some S is P" or "Some S is not P," respectively).

In a critical sense, Popper's theory of demarcation is based upon his perception of the logical asymmetry which holds between verification and falsification: it is logically impossible to conclusively verify a universal proposition by reference to experience (as Hume saw clearly), but a single counter-instance conclusively falsifies the corresponding universal law.

1"In a critical sense, Popper's theory of demarcation is based upon his perception of the logical asymmetry which holds between verification and falsification: it is logically impossible to conclusively verify a universal proposition by reference to experience (as Hume saw clearly), but a single counter-instance conclusively falsifies the corresponding universal law.

In such situations, it is best not to make one's argument depend upon securing agreement about any universal proposition.

Consider a true universal proposition, say the proposition that every finger of my right hand is less than 1m long.

The argument from likeness is thus clearly distinct from the paradeigma, where the universal proposition plays an essential role as an intermediate step in the argument.

But how do you define a universal value proposition and use case for something so highly subjective and contextual as Discovery?

(2) Both the subject and predicate of a universal negative proposition have confused distributive supposition, if they are common terms, as it occurs in 'no man is a stone'.

The confused suppositions are so called since they involve many different individuals, and this is the case for the subject of a universal affirmative proposition (De logica, chap. 12, pp. 39 40).

Nor does the universal proposition assert that some class relation holds between A and B – the assertion of a class relation is just a way of saying that certain propositions are true.