In logic, a categorical proposition, or categorical statement, is a proposition that asserts or denies that all or some of the members of one category...
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refer to various related concepts. Aristotelian logic identifies a categorical proposition as a sentence which affirms or denies a predicate of a subject...
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Syllogism (redirect from Categorical syllogism)
Aristotle limits himself to categorical syllogisms that consist of three categorical propositions, including categorical modal syllogisms. The use of...
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argument Categorical proposition, a part of deductive reasoning Categorization Categorical perception Category theory in mathematics Categorical set theory...
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Contraposition (category Theorems in propositional logic)
type of immediate inference in which from a given categorical proposition another categorical proposition is inferred which has as its subject the contradictory...
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to conform to the autonomy of the will, and this categorical "ought" represents a synthetic proposition a priori. Kant viewed the human individual as a...
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Converse (logic) (section Categorical converse)
statements. For the implication P → Q, the converse is Q → P. For the categorical proposition All S are P, the converse is All P are S. Either way, the truth...
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deterministic propositions, which assert that something is certain with no element of chance. Probabilistic proportions may be either categorical or conditional...
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is a diagram representing the relations between the four basic categorical propositions. The origin of the square can be traced back to Aristotle's tractate...
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affirmative if the original proposition's quality was negative and vice versa". The quality of the inferred categorical proposition is changed but the truth...
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