Sentence examples for categorical affirmation from inspiring English sources
Mr. Pérez Roque said that Cuba was especially pleased with what he called Mexico's "categorical affirmation" that it would not support a vote to condemn Cuba for its human rights record.
That statement is hardly a categorical denial.
8. Abelardus Petrus 1970, 186: "And thus in categorical propositions, the only proper and rightly destroying contradiction to any affirmation seems to be a proposition that with a negation appended in front destroys the entire meaning, so that 'not every human is human', but not 'some human is not human' is the contradictory of 'every human is human'.
Two universal categorical propositions with the same subject and predicate are contraries if one is an affirmation and the other a denial.
In addition to quality (as affirmation or negation) and quantity (as singular, universal, particular, or indefinite), he takes categorical sentences to have a mode; this consists of the fact that the predicate is said to hold of the subject either actually or necessarily or possibly or contingently or impossibly.
Two categorical propositions are contradictories if they are opposed in both quantity and quality; i.e., if one is universal ("every") and the other particular ("some") and one an affirmation and the other a denial.
That's categorical," she said.
That sounds vigorous and categorical.
Are we seeking affirmation?
She smiles in affirmation.
